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

does anyone actually use bumble and enjoy it? serious question

Have had some success with it in the past. Less casual hookup focused than Tinder, which can be good or bad depending on what you're after.

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

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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 fo…

Obligatory https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tWwCK95X6go

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

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Sending unsolicited nudes is a crime so no, it should not be allowed even if there are people who enjoy that stuff.

It is not. https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/bumble-now-unsolicited-... > This sending of unsolicited nudes, or cyberflashing, is not only violent and pernicious, it’s entirely without consequences in 49 states.

> not only violent

When the western world is so isolated from violence that a naked photo is labeled as such..

Don't get me wrong, that is probably a good thing. And of course I am against unsolicited nudes, but "violence" is a bit of a stretch

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

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It is not. https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/bumble-now-unsolicited-... > This sending of unsolicited nudes, or cyberflashing, is not only violent and pernicious, it’s entirely without consequences in 49 states.

Keep reading the article and you will see it is now indeed illegal in a few places, including Texas where Bumble is based. > Now, the sending of a lewd photo without the recipient’s consent is a Class C misdemeanor in Texas, punishable by a fine of up to $500.

> you will see it is now indeed illegal in a few places

There's a bill waiting for a Governor's signature in Virginia (which I guess will make it illegal there) and some bills being discussed / worked on in other places but as far as I can tell from the article, Texas is currently the only state with an actual law on the books to make it illegal.

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

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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 fo…

> 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.

I don't understand. Are you suggesting that Bumble should allow users to send unsolicited nudes to strangers, despite the vast majority of women not appreciating that? Why would any company want to intentionally degrade the experience of roughly half their users?

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

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Sending unsolicited nudes is a crime so no, it should not be allowed even if there are people who enjoy that stuff.

How does your model differentiate solicited and unsolicited nudes?

Doesn't need to, does it? If it's solicited, you know to click on the blurred image. No harm done.

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…

Google docs spell/grammar check shuts off if the word "anal" appears anywhere in a sentence. https://imgur.com/dTJmsTt For some reason "anal" and the F-bomb are the only two words I can find where it does this. The craziest part is if you type something like "analss gland" it figures out you're trying to type "anal gland" and shuts down spellcheck, even though anal gland (dogs) is a perfectly g-rated use of the word…

Sometimes I think there's a specific person at Google with some kind of vocabulary-related mental illness. Just try and get Google Voice Typing to type the word "o'clock". You can stand there saying it over and over, and Google won't stop listening indicating it's hearing and interpreting the word, but it just refuses to type it.

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

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Google docs spell/grammar check shuts off if the word "anal" appears anywhere in a sentence. https://imgur.com/dTJmsTt For some reason "anal" and the F-bomb are the only two words I can find where it does this. The craziest part is if you type something like "analss gland" it figures out you're trying to type "anal gland" and shuts down spellcheck, even though anal gland (dogs) is a perfectly g-rated use of the word…

Even the word fuck can be perfectly acceptable in plenty of contexts. Weird that someone went to the trouble of building in weird kill-switch exceptions in a spell checker. “This feature remains severely disliked by users, with feedback such as ‘Fuck this moronic new button!’ being an example of the milder responses.”

As an Australian, I’m fucking livid these fucks think they have the right to fuck around with my use of the word fuck.

That is to say… as a native speaker of the lovely little English variant where the word fuck or words derived from it are valid in almost every single linguistic context the English language possesses… I take offence at this petty US cultural imperialism.

Just looking at the sheer flexibility of the word on the wiktionary reveals it’s impressive breadth of use. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/fuck#English

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sending unsolicited nudes is a crime so no, it should not be allowed even if there are people who enjoy that stuff.

It is not. https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/bumble-now-unsolicited-... > This sending of unsolicited nudes, or cyberflashing, is not only violent and pernicious, it’s entirely without consequences in 49 states.

There are jurisdictions other than the US, you know? Germany, for example, places unsolicited nude photos as a felony [1].

[1] https://www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/strafanzeige-wegen-des-ver...

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