Monday, June 18, 2018

This has got to be one of the hardest AI problems around: determine if an image is NSFW.

This has got to be one of the hardest AI problems around: determine if an image is NSFW.

5 Difference APIs that use machine learning to detect if an image is nude, and thus Not Safe For Work.


Years ago while working at AOL, I was asked to write similar code to determine if an online image was obscene or not. I could not believe management thought a program could do that. I asked my boss if he thought the Washington Monument was phallic, and thus obscene. People could see obscenity in any image, and miss it in others. We decided not to pursue this coding project.

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