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A comment on Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women. Parent comment

Re:Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women by toyg on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:37AM (#23525184)
> Is the prioritization based on a machine analysis of the photo, or on the response of earlier users to the photo?

I would bet the latter. Why go to the trouble of analysing difficult stuff about body structure, when you can just let users "decide".

I think we should formulate a law, something like "every internet imageboard, if left to user-moderation, will eventually turn into pr0n".

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Re:Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women by n_kb on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:43AM (#23525220)
It's likely that FB uses user response to posts to decide how to prioritize them. However, several patents describe systems where they analyze (using CV) and make decision on the importance of pictures before they are published.
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Re:Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women by disgruntledphd2 on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:51AM (#23525265)
Remember kids, just because a Megacorp has a patent on something, doesn't imply that they are using an approach like this anywhere in production.
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