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Facebook fights against revenge porn by asking for nudes

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Napp
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Kinky.
I think this is a poor idea. If it were to take off, you can be sure there would be loads of spoof sites popping up mascaraing as facebook drawing in vulnerable people.

For all the tech giants are harping on about AI and how it is going to take everyone's jobs in the next 20 years, all the AI I have seen is generally cr@p. I did a Google photo search of my photos today looking for pictures of canals. Amongst the odd picture of a canal, there was a picture of a bench, lakes, rivers, woods - basically more "not" canals than canals.

It is impressive to an extent, but if you were judging a small child on it being able to spot pictures of canals, you would definitely put the Google child in the category of someone who had a severe learning disability.
Original post by FriendlyPenguin
The type of person to fall for that is also the type of person who increasingly only accesses the internet through website-specific apps on their phones.

This doesn't really utilise machine learning, not fundamentally at least.

I would be extremely impressed if Google had perfected AI up to the level of even a small disabled child.


I think it unfair to make assumptions on who gets caught out by fraud. It happens to everyone and anyone. Many people who end up losing lots of money are generally pretty savy. Unfortunately, the scammers are more savy.

As for AI - lots in the news recently about how it is going to put us all out of work. I am not convinced. Even self driving cars aren't that clever. The thing they have now that they didn't have in the days of self driving cars on Tomorrow's World in the 90s is miniaturisation, GPS and Google maps. Everything else is pretty much as good as it was back then.
Original post by FriendlyPenguin


Or you have malware on your side redirecting you to other IPs, or your ISP has gone rogue, but then you have much bigger issues.



:rofl:

Tech has advanced staggeringly much since the 90s, and you are utterly deluded if you think otherwise.


Or malware is installed on your PC. At which point you basically lose control of what is reality and what is not. There is also the proliferation of phishing attacks that are ever more realistic. Even two stage authentication has been hacked by convincing your phone provider to switch your number to a different SIM.

Yes - tech has improved a lot since the 90s. But AI? Nah. I was learning about neural networks when I was at university in 95. It hasn't come on that far. I learned last week that changing a single pixel of image recognition software is enough to throw it most of the time.

The only thing that has changed in the last 20 years is that uses for AI have finally emerged i.e. advertising. And even then, as the US election has shown (fake news) it is completely hopeless at making anything like a meaningful judgement call.
I can see the logic in it, and their methodology does make more level of sense - I’m not sure how many people would be trusting enough of such a system to actually make use of it though.
"If your want to send someone nudes who you don't trust"...revenge porn specifically implies it was your ex who uploaded it.

What we need is much, much more severe criminal punishment for online activity. Some ******* is gonna think twice before uploading something if he faces years in prison.
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Dez
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Original post by RivalPlayer
The best way you can avoid becoming a victim of "revenge porn" is by not sharing sexually explicit images of yourself in the first place.

Facebook's request is rather sinister.


Maybe that's their angle. People get creeped out at the idea of Facebook seeing their pictures and decide against sending them out over the Internet. Problem solved.
Original post by Dez
Maybe that's their angle. People get creeped out at the idea of Facebook seeing their pictures and decide against sending them out over the Internet. Problem solved.


lol

People will never be creeped out by Facebook



Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb ****s.

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