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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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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.

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

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

#52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I realize that this isn't exactly Reddit, but good God man, has the capacity for a simple self-deprecating joke been lost here?

The issue isn't that it's self-deprecating, it's that it's not funny, esp. given the context. "Read the room" type of thing.

Speak for yourself, I found it chuckle worthy

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

#53
post #19

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.

It does not matter who owns the body parts in the images. Unwanted genitalia is unwanted genitalia, no matter the sex or the purpose.

I think a lot of unsolicited female genitalia is sent for spam/scam proposes. A particularly pernicious sort is in the form of sextortion [1]. Images of female genitalia may be sent by a criminal to entice a (typically young or teenage) boy into believing he’s engaging in an online romantic relationship with a real girl. When he reciprocates with images of his own body (as requested to do so), the criminal responds by using those images to blackmail him into paying money with the threat of exposing him to friends and family. This sort of attack has also been used to target girls, though recently the targeting of boys has grown much faster. If I had to speculate, criminals likely see young boys as easier targets who can be enticed with images of the female body.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextortion

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

#55

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).

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.

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

#57
post #50
post #32

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

Sure, it's worked great for me. Couple of good long-term relationships and plenty of fun short term relationships too.

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

#59
post #50
post #32

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

My coworkers tell me it's the only app that worked for them. I'm not in the market so can't comment myself.

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

#60

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

Probably not much at all. They used a pretty straightforward and easy to run model, EfficientNetV2. Something that doesn't give out the best results, but will offer very quick inference and train time.
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