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

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

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> AI tool to detect unsolicited lewd images Does this mean it can also detect "send nudes" to avoid false positives on solicited lewd images? Or does the UI have a on/off toggle for currently-accepting-lewd-images?

If it thinks an image is lewd, it blurs it, and you have the choice to view it, report it, or view it and then report it: https://bumble.com/en-us/help/why-am-i-seeing-a-blurred-imag...

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

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Many years ago (ca. 2009?) at a previous employer we had an enterprise email scanner which included a content filtering feature which could block "pornographic images". We ended up turning it off as it had too many false positives since it was an insurance company that dealt with injuries so a lot of legitimate injury photos would get classed as porn and blocked. I think it was basically looking at how much of an ima…

There was an XKCD comic around that timeframe: https://xkcd.com/1425/ And it really sticks out as one of the few paradigm shifts we’ve had in the last 10 years. In 2009, it really was an impossible task to do that kind of image recognition. But by 2012, it was available in a library for anyone.

Wasn't it about 5 years between when the XKCD comic was published and it became a library. Powered by the work of numerous research teams.

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

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Dating apps are tailored to people in the top X% of attractiveness. Don't take it personally. Most people aren't successful on them, even the ones who get a lot of matches.

I'm relevantly good looking, no problem with getting a beautiful woman IRL, but on dating apps I get no matches. Or if I do its girls who are either average or tinder addicts who everyone should avoid. My working theory is on a dating app woman have unlimited access, so tend to go torwards the top 99.9% of men. Solution: Shadow ban hyper attractive people. Solution 2: Only show people a similar level of attractivenes…

The paradox of choice

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

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This looks like the detector does not run on the phone but I could be wrong about that. If it does not, that implies all messages on this dating app are not private. These conversations and pictures could be very sensitive. our scale allows us to collect a best-in-the-industry dataset of both lewd and non-lewd images For another, it seems like they are saying they collect all these images of people's private parts an…

This isn't some huge revelation. E2E encryption isn't something that Bumble advertises, and their privacy policy [1] plainly states: > We review the content of messages sent in the App to identify topics, sentiments, and trends across our Users. We will take steps to remove personally identifying information from such messages, prior to reviewing them. We will not share the content of User messages or information we…

We will not share the content of User messages or information we derive from them with any third party.

Isn't that what the SavedModel is that they shared on googleapis.com right here? https://storage.googleapis.com/private_detector/private_dete...

edit: and for the record if your messages on a dating app are not E2E encrypted then you are making a terrible mistake. I can't believe anyone would voluntarily make this decision.

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

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post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was an XKCD comic around that timeframe: https://xkcd.com/1425/ And it really sticks out as one of the few paradigm shifts we’ve had in the last 10 years. In 2009, it really was an impossible task to do that kind of image recognition. But by 2012, it was available in a library for anyone.

Small correction - it wasn't until 2014 that it was widely available in libraries. AlexNet was September 2012. FlickR did their XKCD1425 bird detector in Oct 2014: https://code.flickr.net/2014/10/20/introducing-flickr-park-o...

Unfortunately their parkorbird site no longer exists and leads to a yahoo error page

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

#108

Many years ago (ca. 2009?) at a previous employer we had an enterprise email scanner which included a content filtering feature which could block "pornographic images". We ended up turning it off as it had too many false positives since it was an insurance company that dealt with injuries so a lot of legitimate injury photos would get classed as porn and blocked. I think it was basically looking at how much of an ima…

In this case, they blur the image and allow the user to click to unblur.

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

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post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dating apps are tailored to people in the top X% of attractiveness. Don't take it personally. Most people aren't successful on them, even the ones who get a lot of matches.

If that's true the person to figure out how to make dating apps work for average guys can make a lot of money...

I think lots of people have tried.

I agree that among the pool of people on these apps, there are lots of matches that would work out among average-looking people. So why doesn't that happen?

It's because a lot of attraction is based on things that photos and profiles can't convey. The medium of "digital app" is just very, very wrong for optimizing dating.

I've seen research that the most efficient way to handle dating is in-person speed dating.

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

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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?

I'd say 95% of people on this website haven't received one and even Bumble said it's around 0.1% of users which is not comparable to spam levels at all
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