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Re:The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst ... by brynedwards on Sunday January 29, 2017 @05:33AM (#13513521)
There's this by Yahoo:

https://github.com/yahoo/open_nsfw

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Re:The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst ... by drdaeman on Sunday January 29, 2017 @08:41AM (#13514067)
> For this reason, the model we describe below focuses only on one type of NSFW content: pornographic images.

It tries to detect a subset of pornography. Others may have different opinions, but personally I wouldn't relate porn to a category of "worst of humanity".

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Re:The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst ... by brynedwards on Sunday January 29, 2017 @08:52AM (#13514115)
Good point, I guess detecting something as e.g. showing child abuse would be much more difficult.
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