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Re: Bumble releases open-source A.I. feature to help combat unsolicited nudes

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Post by diebeforei485 »

Affric wrote: post #19
diebeforei485 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a lot of DM spam on Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp involving explicit photos of female genitalia that would meet the criteria of obscene material under California's law[1] around sending unsolicited images by electronic means (SB 53). 1. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

Are they sent by the women who own the genitalia? I have never once received an unwanted nude from a woman but as spam whereas with men it has happened enough times for me to believe without statistical justification that unwanted images of male genitalia would be more common.

Yes, women who have paid content on OnlyFans or similar platforms. In some cases it's IRL sex workers.

I am not sure how this is relevant to building a classifier, however. Or relevant to California law.

Re: Bumble releases open-source A.I. feature to help combat unsolicited nudes

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Post by EarlKing »

anonym29 wrote: post #11
WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #8

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I'm almost certain your comment is tongue-in-cheek, but it did pique my curiosity - what do you think the actual ratio of unwanted explicit photos from each sex is? I have a hard time imagining it being less than 99:1.

The actual ratio will vary as a function of the attractiveness of the recipient. Your average joe probably gets none (or as close to none as statistically possible without actually being none). Your guy who looks like he just walked off a runway in Milan, OTOH, can probably count on getting at least a few a day, if only because they are the focus of so much attention.

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Post by mdaniel »

I wonder if marketing put the kibosh on the original title, since the URL slug differs substantially from the article's title

While doing a little view-source: spelunking, I also noticed they're straight-up lying about their alternate language link tags, which I guess is only slightly less interesting than if they had, in fact, translated that blog post into the 26 languages they pretend to support

Re: Bumble releases open-source A.I. feature to help combat unsolicited nudes

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Post by teej »

fragmede wrote: post #20

I can't help but wonder how much the open sourcing of Stable Diffusion contributed to the decision to do this release.

Dick picks are the only infinitely renewable resource on this planet. Pretty sure Stable Diffusion isn’t the reason.

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Post by djbusby »

anonym29 wrote: post #11
WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #8

Quoted post unavailable.

I'm almost certain your comment is tongue-in-cheek, but it did pique my curiosity - what do you think the actual ratio of unwanted explicit photos from each sex is? I have a hard time imagining it being less than 99:1.

I did a video-chat like app c2013-15; with filtered panelists for market research. The participants were compensated (~60/hr).

IIRC, in something like 2000 interviews there were 4 male flashers and zero female.

Four more than expected when we're paying for their time.

2000:4:0

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Post by andirk »

mdaniel wrote: post #23

I wonder if marketing put the kibosh on the original title, since the URL slug differs substantially from the article's title While doing a little view-source: spelunking, I also noticed they're straight-up lying about their alternate language link tags, which I guess is only slightly less interesting than if they had, in fact, translated that blog post into the 26 languages they pretend to support

That URL is pure gold.

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Post by [deleted] »

mdaniel wrote: post #23

I wonder if marketing put the kibosh on the original title, since the URL slug differs substantially from the article's title While doing a little view-source: spelunking, I also noticed they're straight-up lying about their alternate language link tags, which I guess is only slightly less interesting than if they had, in fact, translated that blog post into the 26 languages they pretend to support

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Re: Bumble releases open-source A.I. feature to help combat unsolicited nudes

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Post by Filligree »

minimaxir wrote: post #14

I wonder if there is a way to use this to finetune an image generating AI to generate images that the AI would think is lewd but is not. (similar to what was done with a Yahoo model in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12756462 ) Archive of the original post (NSFW?): https://web.archive.org/web/20161022003102/https://open_nsfw...

Oh, absolutely. The only question is whether or not it can be done efficiently.

Re: Bumble releases open-source A.I. feature to help combat unsolicited nudes

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Post by andirk »

XorNot wrote: post #10
version_five wrote: post #6

I'm most interested in how they handle it for the users. It says potential "nudes" are blurred and can be "reported" or viewed. Will it tell the sender they're sending something that's going to be blurred? (which on one hand would let them resolve a false positive but also maybe let them find an adversarial image).

This is an interesting question, because it can be unpleasant to know that the attempt had even happened. I suspect given the option, most people would turn on an option for "block dick pics silently" and leave it on. Similar to how I never actually check my spam folder anymore.

Dick pics folder is the new spam folder? What does this say about society, that we've gotten better or worse?
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