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

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

It is impossible to create a perpetual motion machine but it does seem possible to create a perpetual dick pic machine.

We have that, it's called chat roulette

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

#122
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Can they open source their algorithirm so I can figure out why I get no matches

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.

>Dating apps are tailored to people in the top X% of attractiveness.

They aren't. I'm in the top 1% for income and top 5% for looks. I used to get no matches on tinder. I asked a few female friends to come up with a profile they thought would be more attractive. After I saw what they came up with (I have a boat, I fly first class, I'm in a holiday in Europe) I deleted it and move them to acquaintances.

The type of woman who would find that sort of thing attractive is _not_ the type of woman who I'd want to sleep with let alone have a relationship with.

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

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>Traversing the trade-offs between state-of-the-art performance and the ability to serve our user base at scale, we implemented (in its latest iteration) an EfficientNetv2-based binary classifier: a convolutional network that has faster training speed and overall better parameters efficiency. It uses a combination of better designed architecture and scaling, with layers like MBConv (that utilizes 1×1 convolutions to wide up the space and depth-wise convolutions for reducing the number of overall parameters) and FusedMBConv (that merges some steps of the vanilla MBConv above for faster execution), to jointly optimize training speed and parameter efficiency. The model has been trained leveraging our GPU powered data centers in a continuous exercise of dataset, network and hyperparameters (the settings used to speed up or improve the training performance) optimization.

This is a lot of words to say, "we used an off-the-shelf architecture". Like it's literally just Google's public implementation copied over.

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

#126
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Your theory makes no sense. First you obviously mean the top 0.1% of men. Second the top 0.1% of men can't date more than a few percent of the women. Much more likely you don't put enough effort into your profile or you have something on, that is a red flag for most women.

Yes I did mean the top 0.1% of men. I disagree with that the top man can not date more than a few. A single woman needs a romantic partner let's say ever three months, a man can have one every day. We see this in gay men having 500+ average sexual partners. Gay men can have sex as much as they want, because of access. Top 0.1% of men can also have sex when ever they want, they are getting constant matches with 6,7,8…

Judging by how you are framing the issue and the way you've talked about women in this thread (which has been a red flag for me, at least) I suspect your experience has nothing to do with your physical traits.

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

#127

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…

"A)" reminds me of a certain Better Off Ted episode. (If anyone here hasn't watched the series, do yourself a favor and do so.)

Better Off Ted had a great premise, but it didn't survive past two seasons because it didn't "click". It was the right idea, but just like with successful shows, certain magic that not even the creators understand has to happen. And it didn't happen here, which is a shame.

That said, still a very entertaining show.

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

#128
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It doesn't tell the sender. Both dick pics and boob pics are blurred. I'd note that the title here is slightly misleading. It doesn't do anything to check if the pics are solicited or not.

My recollection of Bumble is that all images were blurred (at least until you already sent pictures to each other?) While I imagine having a good filter is important given the scale of online dating I would think all other filters would eliminate most of the problem (auto blurring images if people have only sent a few messages to each other, blur the first image sent, blur images by anyone who has been reported befor…

Yes there is a length of conversation factor in visibility for normal photos too (I think).

But for "adult" photos they just blur.

I suspect people like this feature because they want to make sure they don't have people around them when they open that message (assuming it is a consensualy exchanged pic)

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

#129

A lot of their copy seems to indicate the priority is detecting dick picks. I realize those are the vast, vast majority of "unsolicited lewd images", but I do wonder how capable their model is at detecting pussy pics, if at all.

That model will probably be used for entirely different purposes.

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

#130
I was permanently banned from Tinder for trying to upload a picture of myself holding a pepper from my garden. I can only assume that Tinder's AI thought the pepper looked like an unacceptable body part.

I am absolutely in favor of using AI to combat unsolicited nudes as long as it's implemented something like: on the sender's side, show a warning before sending that the image appears to be in bad taste and asking for confirmation, then on the receiver's side, hiding the image behind a warning that it may be unwanted and showing two buttons, "show image" and "unmatch".

This is how Bumble appears to have implemented the feature. Though personally, I'm not going to test it because I think sending unsolicited nudes is a losing strategy for dating.

Yet, as rare as it might be, there are people of both genders who actually enjoy receiving unsolicited nudes. And people who enjoy sexual pickup lines. The judgement call of what is/isn't going to be attractive or appropriate ought be to left in the hands of the individuals dating as much as possible rather than controlled by a priest at a tech company.

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