[alasarmas]

It has been documented that human image moderators exist and that some have been deeply traumatized by their work. I have zero doubts that the datasets of content and metadata created by human image moderators are being bought and sold, literally trafficking in human suffering. Can you point to a comprehensive effort by the tech majors to create a freely-licensed dataset of violent content and metadata to prevent duplication of human suffering?

[michaelt]

Nobody's distributing a free dataset of child abuse, animal torture and terror beheading images, for obvious reasons.

There are some open-weights NSFW detectors [1] but even if your detector is 99.9% accurate, you still need an appeals/review mechanism. And someone's got to look at the appeals.

[1] https://github.com/yahoo/open_nsfw

[mallowdram]

All of this is so dystopian (flowers/beheadings) it makes K Dick look like a golden-age Hollywood musical. Are the engineers so unaware of the essential primate forces underneath this that cannot be sanitized from the events? You can unearth our extinction from this value dichotomy.

[alasarmas]

I mean, yes, my assumption is there exists an image / video normalization algorithm that can be followed by hashing the normalized value. There’s a CSAM scanning tool that exists that I believe uses a similar approach