Based on that one Senate hearing, it looks like big companies like Facebook, Discord and Twitter are aiming for the maximum percent of false positives and false negatives when it comes to CSAM.
The only thing I know about that screenshot is that it used to say “show results anyway” which is probably worse in most cases
“LOOK!! WE’RE ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING!!! ALL OUR USERS ARE NOT PDF FILES!”
It’s dumb, but it’s also possible that a combination of those terms hads been adopted by some group distributing CSAM.
At one point, “cheese pizza” was a term they apparently used on YouTube videos etc due to it having the same abbreviation as CP (Child Pornography).
Sick fucks ruining everything for everyone
I agree with you is the TL;DR, and the rest is just my mad ranting opinions about companies being allowed to just auto-censor us. So feel free to completely ignore the rest. lol.
It is like just banning words and phrases just because bad people use them has just become the norm. I really really can’t stand the way that channels on YT constantly have to self-censor basically everything (even if the video is just reporting on or trying to explain bad shit that is or has happened). And it never seems to actually stop the actual issues from happening. Just means the bad people just move on to a new word or phrase that is then itself banned. It isn’t about actually stopping fucked-up shit from happening. It is just about making sure advertisers and other sources of money don’t throw a fit.
We always hear about how places like China are bad in-part for censoring words and speech. But in the US and other western nations we pretend we are allowed to freely speak uncensored. We have always had censoring of speech, it is just that the real rulers of the country are allowed to do it instead. Keeps the government’s hands free from legally being the enforcers of doing it to us. Shit like CP is fucked, and it should be handled for what it is, but allowing for-profit companies and especially their algorithms/AI to decide what we can and can’t say or search for without any level of human interactions that very much lead to false bans is also fucked.
It is waaaay too easy for all the mega corps to completely take down channels and block creators from revenue of their own work just completely automated. But the accused channel can’t ever get a real person to both get clear understanding of what and who is attacking them, and to explain why their strike/bans aren’t valid. I have heard that even channels that have gotten written/legal permission from a big studio to use a clip of music or segment from video (music being the worst) will STILL catch automated strikes for copyright violations.
We don’t need actual government censors, because the mega corps with all the money are allowed to do it for them. We have rights but they don’t really matter if they can say a private company or org made up of people from various mega corps are allowed to do it for them.
I reported loads of content on Instagram, genuinely creepy accounts of “athletic teens” and they all got rejected.
I got caught in a horrible recommendations loop because I’d like family photos of running and gymnastics for my nieces and cousins.
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Honestly they are all bad
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Yeah I disagree. Ticktok content is way to short to have any meaningful impact. Its just dopamine over and over.
We beat KOSA before, we can beat it again. Contacting your reps matters. Voting matters, especially in primaries and locals. So does being active politically in other ways.
I’m not familiar with American stuff, what is KOSA?
It’s the “Kids Online Safety Act”. Basically it’s using the old “think of the children!” move, but in reality conservatives are trying to push anything queer back into the dark.
Think of the children! Let us scan all of your images, files and messages! For the sake of children of course! Nothing suspicious here…
Just like we beat them trying to take net neutrality, right?
Do you have to pay comcast extra to stream netflix? No? Net neutrality still exists.
This is a bad take. The public wasn’t the one that would need to pay Comcast, they would have charged Netflix.
A total breakdown in net neutrality could have very well had that result.
Remember, searching for “halo” is banned because it could potentially be linked to pedophilia, but editing a video of the president to look like a pedophile is fine because “it wasnt done with AI.”
Here’s a hot tip. If you’re on android, open the developer settings and turn on “demo mode” before taking screenshots. It makes the battery and signal display as 100% so you don’t get judged by internet commenters who don’t go outside.
so you don’t get judged by internet commenters who don’t go outside.
I also go outside. I just stop using my Phone at 30% to preserve Battery. That’s why I judge these People. Turn it off and preserve the Battery.
Or you click that little edit button and crop the top of the image completely off.
16% is pretty good. the ones at three to one percent are the weirdos.
I really hate and avoid when my phone switches into battery saver at 15%, so in my mind 16% is like 1%
To prolong your battery’s lifespan you shouldn’t let it drain below 20%.
Don’t phone battery indicators lie to you now so that 0% displayed is actually about 20% specifically because of this?
Also charging it fully but I don’t know how important that one is.
Just as important. And most phones these days have a setting to prevent it from charging to 100%. E.g. I set mine to stop at 90%.
For lithium batteries (phone batteries) it’s actually more important than draining to 0. Many studies indicate that the average phone battery should last several thousand cycles while only losing 5-10% of total capacity provided it is never charged above 80%. Minimum % (even down to 0%) and charge rate below 70% is also unrestricted.
The tl;dr is that everytime you charge to 100% is the same as 50-100 charges to 80%. Draining a lithium chemistry battery to 0 isn’t an issue as long as you don’t leave it in a discharged state (immediately charging).
Barely 2 years ago I noticed that people were posting porn on Insta, and it was publicly visible just because they tagged #cum as #cüm. I don’t think this is possible now, but basically corporations are dumb and people posting disallowed content can be creative as hell.
ah yes, cumlauts
Leave it to reddit to “accidentally” stumble across a CSAM warning.
Did it even occur to you that this could be a false positive?
Also you do realize this isn’t Reddit?
It’s sourced as coming from a reddit thread in the body.
One the biggest problems with the internet today is bad actors know how to manipulate or dodge the content moderation to avoid punitive consequences. The big social platforms are moderated by the most naive people in the world. It’s either that or willful negligence. Has to be. There’s just no way these tech bros who spent their lives deep in internet culture are so clueless about how to content moderate.
I know them. I worked in this industry. They’re not naive. What basis do you have for these comments?
I think you’re conflating with business executives running said social and gaming companies. Stop calling them techbros. Meta is not a tech startup. They’re a transnational corporation. They have capitalist execs running the companies.
Musk
