Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positive Communities

Re:Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positi... by tossaccount123 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:18AM (#18618191)

Seems like they've tried to roll their own machine learning classifier as well because I've seen some comically bad screenshots of banned content. For example, a picture of someone's finger got banned as sexually explicit.

Should have just used AWS or Google Cloud AI APIs

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Re:Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positi... by nxc18 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:00PM (#18619750)

Yeah its really bad. I reviewed my (exclusively adult) tumblr when they started hiding things and it was comical what did and didn't get banned.

Shirtless guy on the beach? Banned!

Completely naked person with genitals in full view, posed to arouse prurient interests? Totally fine, apparently.

Totally agree that they should have used existing tools. As for the CP issue, they absolutely should be using the tools published by Microsoft, the FBI, etc. - it is totally shameful if they weren't already doing that.

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Re:Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positi... by giancarlostoro on Thursday December 06, 2018 @10:42AM (#18618933)

Or Not Hotdog

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Re:Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positi... by adrianN on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:32AM (#18618301)

Those never have false positives?

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Re:Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positi... by tossaccount123 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:40AM (#18618358)

Not as bad as I've seen from Tumblr. It's moving towards meme territory with how bad some of the bans are

Update It has in fact become a meme, example

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1437369-tumblr#comments

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Re:Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positi... by Domark on Thursday December 06, 2018 @10:03AM (#18618516)

Translation for non-millenials: It’s become a joke.

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Re:Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positi... by Kye on Thursday December 06, 2018 @10:49AM (#18619003)

A meme is basically a joke template that becomes popular. Then they get remixed, and the remix gets popular. Before you know it someone's asking "where did that cosmic brain meme image come from?" and you find out it's from a stock video.

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