Now, the alarming aspect of this story is that the very same technology is probably what tumblr is using to identify porn. Now, if it canāt tell that an empty field is not, in fact, full of sheep, what hope do we have that it canāt tell an empty room isnāt full of writing human forms engaged in passionate coitus?
this really does sound like an episode of black mirror
This is gonna produce some absolutely baffling pornography.
ā¦. oh my fucking god they actually are using open source software. Theyāre using a fucking one-layer unidirectional bicategory tag-trained neural network. This will never work. Literally, it will never work. Thereās just not enough algorithmic complexity to do what theyāre asking of it. I bet you I could prove on a mathematical level that this joke of a neural net fundamentally lacks the abstraction necessary to do its job.
This will never get better. Their algorithm will never stop fucking up, it will never actually flag porn reliably and it will always require a massive quantity of human hours to deal with the deluge of mistagged pictures. This isnāt just a case of an insufficiently trained algorithm, itās just ā¦ this is the most basic neural network you can make. It probably hasa a lot of neurons and has loads of training data but like ā¦ you canāt just brute force this kind of stuff. One layer of neurons is just Not Enough.
Also, just to make this clear, Tumblr lied. I mean, we already know this, but I mean they liiiieeeeed. All that stuff they promised about what would or would not be censored? That cannot be delivered on with a system this simple. Nude classical sculptures, political protests, male-presenting nipples (really Tumblr?), nude art outside the context of sex, all that? You cannot train a bicategory one-layer neural network to exclude those things. It cannot be done. Tumblr never intended for those things to actually be permitted, they were just lying. Because the system they have cannot actually do what they said it would and never will be able to.
Also, this kind of system is super vulnerable to counter-neural strategies. I bet you before the end of the month someone hooks up their own open source one layer bicategory neural network which puts an imperceptible (to humans) layer of patterned static over arbitrary images, and trains it by having it bot-post static-ed images to Tumblr and reinforcing based on whether the images are labeled nsfw or sfw. Seriously, within a month someone will have an input-output machine which can turn any image āsfwā in Tumblrās eyes.
This is genuinely pathetic. Like, I have real pity for whoever implemented this, because itās clear Tumblr doesnāt actually have any engineers with any expertise with machine learning left at all and they foisted the job off on some poor bastard who has no idea what theyāre doing and is going to get all kinds of flak for their (perfectly reasonable and predetermined) failure from management.
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Oh my god, this is going on my list along with doesthedogdie.com
Holy shit thatās useful
I probably wonāt find myself using this but for my followers: if you canāt handle this shit, USE THIS. If you think a movie or tv show may be hard to watch, do your homework.
āthis is why we need a platform with 0 censorship!ā no its not actually, because this platform was ridden with fucking child porn
this entire mess is because tumblr didnt have any fucking moderation, and they let it get worse and worse until eventually they had to resort to dumbass overreaching solutions that dont solve anything. the solution isntĀ ājudgement free uwuā social media. the solution is actually moderating your site to keep that shit off of it
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