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More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD

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Re: More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD

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Maybe.. apple had a lot of backlash using AI to detect CSAM.

Wasn’t the backlash due to the fact that they were running detection on device against your private library?

Yes. As opposed to running it on their servers like they do now.

And it was only for iCloud synced photos.

Re: More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD

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One of few fields where AI is very welcome

I’m wondering if, like looking out from behind a blanket at horror movies, if getting a moderately blurred copy of images would reduce the emotional punch of highly inappropriate pictures. Or just scaled down tiny.

If it’s already bad blurred or as a thumbnail don’t click on the real thing.

Re: More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD

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How else would you stop the perpetrators?

Large scale and super sick perpetrators exist (as compared to small scale ones who do mildly sick stuff) because Facebook is a global network and there is a benefit to operating on such a large platform. The sicker you are, while getting away with it, the more reward you get. Switch to a federated social systems like Mastodon, with only a few thousand or ten thousand users per instance, and perpetrators will never be…

Tricky. It also gives perpetrators a lot more places to hide. I think the jury is out on whether a few centralized networks or a fediverse makes it harder for attackers to reach potential targets (or customers).

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"More than 140 Facebook content moderators have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder caused by exposure to graphic social media content including murders, suicides, child sexual abuse and terrorism." What part here are you suggesting is similar to seeing two men kissing?

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Re: More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD

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Maybe.. apple had a lot of backlash using AI to detect CSAM.

No, they had backlash against using AI on devices they don’t own to report said devices to police for having illegal files on them. There was no technical measure to ensure that the devices being searched were only being searched for CSAM, as the system can be used to search for any type of images chosen by Apple or the state. (Also, with the advent of GenAI, CSAM has been redefined to include generated imagery that…

> they don’t own to report said devices to police for having illegal files on them

They do this today. https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...

Every photo provider is required to report CSAM violations.

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