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I learned this by accident today.
In 2017, Facebook announced a "Non-Consensual Intimate Image" pilot program to combat revenge porn. Here's the summary:
Yes, a "specially-trained" Facebook employee will happily take some time to look over your nudes. For subjecting yourself to an official Facebook Voyeur, you get an additional layer of protection against revenge porn.
Ah, but that was just the pilot, right? Surely this has all been replaced by machine learning by now.
Well, not really. Facebook has since introduced algorithms to augment this feature -- though they never actually say no human reviewers are involved, curious -- but "this new detection technology is in addition to our pilot program."
I wonder how many of these nude photos get escalated for, uh, additional scrutiny.
In 2017, Facebook announced a "Non-Consensual Intimate Image" pilot program to combat revenge porn. Here's the summary:
- To establish which image is of concern, people will be asked to send the image to themselves on Messenger.
- Once we receive this notification, a specially trained representative from our Community Operations team reviews and hashes the image, which creates a human-unreadable, numerical fingerprint of it.
- We store the photo hash—not the photo—to prevent someone from uploading the photo in the future. If someone tries to upload the image to our platform, like all photos on Facebook, it is run through a database of these hashes and if it matches we do not allow it to be posted or shared.
Yes, a "specially-trained" Facebook employee will happily take some time to look over your nudes. For subjecting yourself to an official Facebook Voyeur, you get an additional layer of protection against revenge porn.
Ah, but that was just the pilot, right? Surely this has all been replaced by machine learning by now.
Well, not really. Facebook has since introduced algorithms to augment this feature -- though they never actually say no human reviewers are involved, curious -- but "this new detection technology is in addition to our pilot program."
I wonder how many of these nude photos get escalated for, uh, additional scrutiny.
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