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Apple’s Sensitive Content Warning is supposed to protect users from unwanted nude images. It accidentally blurred my friend’s dog video.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.404media.co/apples-imessage-scanning-flagged-a-video-of-my-friends-dog-as-nudity/

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[–] Sumocat@lemmy.world 59 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago

OP didn't even NSFW...

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nuh uh. He's wearing a fur coat.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Not even a collar or dandy lil kerchief. Definitely nakie

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The thing must've been trained on lots of furry stuff

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Says something about the Apple devs.

[–] SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 8 points 4 days ago

"Your dog is too sexy, we can't show that"

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh buddy... You don't want to research about that. Something happening at a furry convention could destabilize large sections of the global IT industry.

A LOT of the developers and engineers keeping global tech infrastructure operational are furries.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

I don't remember the exact quote, or if it was an old demotivational poster, but it was something like "if an airplane full of furry convention goers crashes, you can say goodbye to the internet"

[–] Luccus@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Google ingested super-niche hard-core furry eRPG smut into their training data. You can validate this by asking Gemma 4 (26B or 31B) for information regarding "Corruption of Champions" by "Fenoxo".

Somewhere, somehow, someone at Google keeps a harddrive full of furry smut as "high quality training data".

Btw., this also means swearing, fucking and fisting a cock does not deter the scrapers. At this point I have no idea how to keep any repo from being scraped.

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago

I would hardly call CoC "super-niche"

[–] Astronut@lemmy.zip 24 points 4 days ago

Well that’s just nuts!

[–] Sandbar_Trekker@piefed.zip 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Obviously, scanning the content of messages and content is controversial, but Apple says it performs the scan on the device. Users can also turn the feature off in the settings. “Sensitive Content Warning uses on-device machine learning to analyze photos and videos. Because they're analyzed on your device, Apple doesn't receive an indication that nudity was detected and doesn't get access to the photos or videos as a result,” its website adds.

I'd rather these kind of systems be set up to run locally like this, even better that we are given control to disable it. For the ML model it's a balance between too many false positives and too many false negatives.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I know android reports you to the police if they think you have CSAM images (and their algorithm is similarly highly inaccurate). Does anyone know if Apple does this?

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They talked about it more than a year ago. IIRC it is sent for review to a third party. The picture is supposedly anonymized.

Local or not, it is till spying IMHO.

[–] baronvonj@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

Was it a weiner dog?

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago

Call the Witchfinder sergeant!

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 6 points 4 days ago
[–] Sandbar_Trekker@piefed.zip 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you find one let me know. So far every other service either blocks most news sites or removes archived pages on request defeating the point of an archive.

[–] Sandbar_Trekker@piefed.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah, unfortunately, they're good at what they do. Hopefully a better service will come along, or archive.org improves their archival methods. It's also going to be hard to find a service that ignores requests to delete archived pages.

[–] haxboar@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago

It also just doesn't work for me. I get a notice that I have to complete a captcha, but no captcha shows up.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Furries are definitely confusing the fuck out of AI nudity scanners.

"But 3 million people on the internet have a similar photo in their wank folder..."

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

One primary directory with lots of sub directories, surely.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago
  • “Homework”
    • “Algebra I”
    • “English Lit”
    • “PE” 😏
[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 3 days ago

Sir, how old is that naked pup?

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Am I missing the point here? Software screws up in predictable, sometimes funny ways. This has been an issue for as long as software has existed.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

This is more of a cautionary tale and evidence for why automated message scanning and reporting is a horrible idea. One false positive can ruin someone's life. In today's day and age an accusation is more powerful than any proof and being falsely accused of having or distributing CSAM is effectively a death sentence.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago
[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

In the not too distant future they will be censoring the unassuming asterisk.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Similar, Google Pixel phones have on device scam detection for phone calls, and it frequently triggers over nothing. I use my phone for work related calls a lot, and anytime we mention an invoice or online payment it sets off the potential scam alert.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What does that look like? I hadn't noticed anything happening during a call so far, then again I don't do a lot of calls.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It does a weird ring alert during the call (presumably only audible on my end) and I get a red alert on the call screen saying suspected spam call.

After the call it also shows the warning on the call history screen, and I can mark it as not a scam, and explain why it wasn't.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Interesting. Thanks for that explanation

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

Not all Pixels. If you reinstall the OS, it lacks all this google trash by default