Tumblr’s anti-porn algorithm is flagging basically everything as NSFW
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#2well, looks like my old automated tumblr works fine http://apologiseinsincerely.tumblr.com/ - I was worried some of the robots carrying women would look bad, or some image manipulations might resemble something they weren't.
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#3I wouldn't label the algorithm as anti-porn. I'd label it "how to lose user base and drive the company to a hole" algorithm. It's not likely that it detects actual porn, it's basically failing miserably and the result is abandonment. That's what you get when you want to be PC and yet another "me too, I do cool stuff too" company. There are lessons to be learned here, and for that - thank you Tumblr :)
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#4Tumblr is dead. I give it three months before it's forgotten by the majority of its former user base.
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#5Oath is desperate to put more ads on Tumblr, because they massively overpaid for it ($1 billion) and have been throwing money at it ever since (100s of millions). I guess because of the way the content is displayed they can't just segregate nsfw stuff into a demonetized stream, but if they think they can turn Tumblr into a mainstream site that shows family-centric ads, they clearly don't understand what they bought.
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#6Why does the author seem to suggest that the nazis are less affected by this than pictures of furniture?
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#7While Tumblr have every right to have whatever terms of service they like, this feels like a bait-and-switch to me. People and communities have become accustomed to allowing NSFW stuff on Tumblr, and if Tumblr had forbidden this from the get go these people who have set up somewhere else and not on Tumblr.
What we need[1] is for social networks to be interoperable, with open data and protocols, so that a user can up sticks, move to a different site, and take their existing data (posts, images etc) with them and keep their followers.
1. As I have argued before, see https://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2018/08/30/dont-nationalise-...
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#8I'm sure the upload filters the EU wants to mandate will be every bit as successful as this, in terms of the number of false positives.
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#9I do never used Tumblr but AFAICT porn is the most common contents, so i bet the major source of revenue...
BTW the neovittorian movement against sex in general (disguised in many form to health things, anti-pornography for pedagogic things, anti-prostitution because of racket, ...) it's a clear sign of our degradation as society.
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#10I'm not sure how this proves the algorithm is doing a poor job. Any NSFW classifier is going to have a non-trivial error rate. Tumblr hosts LOTS of images. So if you have a non-trivial error rate and multiply it by LOTS of images you are going to get LOTS of images being misclassified incorrectly. It's not surprising someone was able to write a story about a bunch of images being misclassified. This doesn't seem to tell us anything about whether the algorithm has a high error rate or not.