Facebook wants your nudes

Sabre0001

In an attempt to tackle revenge porn, Facebook is asking users to send them nude photos. Facebook will then convert each image into a unique digital fingerprint to block any attempts to re-upload the same image.

From the Buzz.ie article:
“They're not storing the image. They're storing the link and using artificial intelligence and other photo-matching technologies. So if somebody tried to upload that same image, which would have the same digital footprint or hash value, it will be prevented from being uploaded.”

There goes the opportunity to get a job cataloging nudes...

Will this help? Surely if people want to post revenge porn, they'll find a way around this measure...And this depends on the subject of the photo having access to the photo in the first place.

Jim Bob Scratcher

Ubbquittious

Facebook can fuck right off and Mark Zuckerberg should take a long walk off a short pier

_Kaiser_

Can't see how that helps if someone uploads it to one of the porn sites or shares it via an IM app (or pretty much any non-Facebook site) to be honest

MrPudding

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Can't see how that helps if someone uploads it to one of the porn sites or shares it via an IM app (or pretty much any non-Facebook site) to be honest

Well, it doesn't. The developers of the technology are trying to encourage other websites and apps to use the technology. It is actually very clever.

MrP

The_Valeyard

Facebook becoming Reddit

'send nudes'

Red_Wake

Hack that, and you'd have a mega Fappening.

In!

MrPudding

Red_Wake wrote: »

Hack that, and you'd have a mega Fappening.

In!

Assuming they do it the way it should be done, then no. The pictures won't be stored, a hash of the pictures will be stored. The hash won't be any use to anyone.

MrP

rocketspocket

MrPudding wrote: »

Well, it doesn't. The developers of the technology are trying to encourage other websites and apps to use the technology. It is actually very clever.

MrP

No its not.. Facebook have to have every nude picture that you have ever taken in order for it to work - doesn't sound clever to me - better yet, why don't they simply use facial recognition and stop people posting pictures of you without your direct consent. Problem solved (on fb anyway)

biko

Facebook minimum age is 13 so does this make them pervs?

From the Guardian source

In the Australian pilot, users must first complete an online form on the e-safety commissioner’s website outlining their concerns. They will then be asked to send the pictures they are concerned about to themselves on Messenger while the e-safety commissioner’s office notifies Facebook of their submission. Once Facebook gets that notification, a community operations analyst will access the image and hash it to prevent future instances from being uploaded or shared.

rocketspocket

biko wrote: »

a community operations analyst will access the image

If it was to read Trevor will access the image then i doubt many would upload - both equally correct though.

Red_Wake

MrPudding wrote: »

Red_Wake wrote: »

Hack that, and you'd have a mega Fappening.

In!

Assuming they do it the way it should be done, then no. The pictures won't be stored, a hash of the pictures will be stored. The hash won't be any use to anyone.

MrP

Don't burst my bubble.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Well I don't know about anyone else but I have sent them all the nude selfies I have of myself just to be sure although I'm a bit concerned that now that I have posted them on facebook that everyone on my friends list (673 people) can now see them but I guess FB know what they're doing and it'll all be for the best.

Tokyo

I've been sending Zuckerberg naked pics of myself for years now, and I've never seen them online, so I guess it works....





I'm wondering how long it takes before a dozen fake community operations analyst "send me your naked pics for analysis" messenger profiles pop up. I give it a week.

Pete Moss

That's all well and good for regular nudes, but what about us Never-Nudes, Zuckerberg?! There are literally dozens of us! Dozens!

MrPudding

rocketspocket wrote: »

No its not.. Facebook have to have every nude picture that you have ever taken in order for it to work - doesn't sound clever to me - better yet, why don't they simply use facial recognition and stop people posting pictures of you without your direct consent. Problem solved (on fb anyway)

Sorry, but it is clever. It can recognise a picture even when the picture has been altered.

Granted, right now they need to have your picture so they can create the hash, which would then make it impossible for that picture, or a derivative of it, to be posted. Not ideal, but a pretty good start.

Facial recognition needs to be taught too, but this goes beyond that. if you are in a relationship where you consensually take nude pictures of each other, then this will work very well. Of course it won't work where the pictures are taken secretly, are not uploaded for hashing or are shared in some other medium.

I would expect that as the technology improves and learns it may well develop into something that can recognise a person in a picture even where it does not have the hash of it.

MrP

rocketspocket

MrPudding wrote: »

Facial recognition needs to be taught too
MrP

Facebook have learned your face if you have posted any pictures of yourself up to the platform previously.

My point is simple - you can get a better solution without the need upload any nude photos of yourself; AI can decipher if the picture contains nudity & can also determine if you are within that picture - by default facebook could block any photos of you, with nude content contained within and you don't have to send your photos to them.

them asking for images of you naked isn't to assist in anu technical solution as that already exists and is used on many platforms - if not technical then what?

Ain't nobody wants my nudes man

diomed

I know the clock went back an hour, but did April 1st move too?

BBDBB

Im undercutting Zuckerberg

send ME your nudes and I will ensure they aren't reproduced