Facebook uses AI to actively filter intentional pornography

Facebook has revealed its latest attempt to curb the spread of 'deliberate pornography' on the planet's largest social networking site.

The phrase 'intentional pornography' is quite broad, but in this case it can be understood that it is an act of publicizing intimate images or videos without the consent of those who participate in those images or videos. In fact, this 'intentional pornographic' form is increasingly appearing on the internet in general and in particular friends, texting and social networking applications due to the popularity of smartphones and the number of people. using these platforms is increasing rapidly. Although many countries now have special laws to address pornography issues in cyberspace, it seems that it cannot prevent this behavior from happening, especially when it comes to reviewing Control and testing initially cannot meet the requirements. And it is important that until an 'intimate', private content is illegally shared, punished by the law, the damage suffered by the victim is already too great!

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Like some technology companies, Facebook has introduced a few tools to solve intentional pornography for years. Back in 2017, Facebook has launched a new Report feature to make it easier for users to report intimate content shared on Facebook, Messenger or Instagram. At that time, the social networking site also said that it would use image recognition technology to ensure that a photo detected as intentional pornography could not be shared again in the future.

After that, Facebook has also allowed its users to take a more proactive approach in this issue by sending a digital copy of the image to help Facebook automatically block all attempts to share the public. repeat this image in the future. However, this is still not enough, these are still passive remedies, Facebook needs a more proactive tool in both prevention and processing, and AI will probably is the right technology.

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With its latest effort, Facebook is trying to minimize damage to victims of deliberate pornography by proactively detecting broken nude or semi-nude images and videos. Share without permission from the subject on Facebook or Instagram.

'That means we will be able to find these wrong content before it reaches out to the community, which is very important because of two reasons: First, usually the victim is afraid of retaliation so they reluctantly report the content themselves. Secondly, they had no idea that their pornography was shared, 'said Antigone Davis, head of Facebook's global security department, in a blog post.

More specifically, Facebook's smart learning app will mark visual content that it thinks could constitute a deliberate sexual act, and pass it on to Facebook employees to review the content. there.

'If the image or video violates Facebook's community standards, we will immediately delete it and in most cases we will also disable the shared content accounts' intimate 'without permission. Of course, users can also submit a protest request if they think Facebook has misjudged the problem, and we welcome it too, 'Antigone Davis added.

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In addition to the new automatic detection technology, Facebook has also decided to launch a support center called Not Without My Consent, which serves a range of related tools and resources to control pornography. appears on this social network.

There is no controversial fact that Facebook cannot manage partial microphones for shared content on its platform, and that is why artificial intelligence (AI) plays a part more important in content censorship efforts, not only on Facebook but also on all other community application platforms. However, over the years, Facebook has also caused a lot of controversy about how their algorithms evaluate and decide what content can be accessed to the community and what content will be blocked. There is a specific situation as follows: Facebook deleted the 'napalm girl' photo (napalm girl - a famous Pulitzer winning photo with the content of a naked girl running away from a bomb explosion). Napalm in the Vietnam War), by Facebook's algorithm that this is a nude image that violates community standards and prohibits sharing this image. In the same year, Facebook had to appear in court because of a lawsuit from a 14-year-old girl with a nude photo appearing on the social network.

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Although the aforementioned cases partly show the imperfection in Facebook's automated censorship algorithm, they also show that this social network is actually 'bogged down' by a tough war. to save their reputation after a year full of privacy scandals. And although CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently revealed that the company will pursue an approach that maximizes user privacy in the future, most people still show suspicion at the main. Facebook books.