For those who haven't heard it yet have a listen to Sam Harris's latest at https://samharris.org/podcasts/213-worst-epidemic/ So let's discuss as an anonymous tech community what practical steps we can take to reduce child porn. Obviously there are no silver bullets. A highly technical community will always be able to bypass whatever we do with sufficient encryption. We can catch those who aren't technically literate. Some potential improvements: * Live streams detection with CNNs / temporal deep learning models. * Active scanning any cloud storage shared with the public using image dna. * Standardize video hash systems. * Open source tooling for active scanning for medium sized companies. * Create client side tools that scan at image and video ingestion time. * Audio transcription and NLP systems designed to catch sexploitation. * Bandit algorithms to sample content. Obviously running these algorithms is expensive and not practical for the amount of media being uploaded to various platforms daily. Intelligent sampling would be needed to make any kind of analysis tractable. * Generating synthetic video or images using GANs with known hashes that we can provide to law enforcement to seed and trace with various communities. I'd like to avoid privacy versus child porn debates in this thread if possible. It's likely not practical to scan content encrypted during transit and at rest. Let's focus on other scenarios like a users broadly sharing this content. #apple #google #amazon #amazonaws #facebook #microsoft #zoom #skype #dropbox #snap #bytedance #ibm #twitter
The simplest thing is having content mods focus on actual criminal activity instead of partisan political attacks. Child porn is all over Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and instead they focus mods on blocking videos of doctors ffs. Priorities are way out of whack. Tech CEOs have blood on their hands for this one.
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This is a very painful topic and something that I have a strong visceral reaction to. What I can say is that in terms of priorities, some of your statements are a bit inaccurate. Significant resources in fb are actually targeted at dealing with this. Beyond detection, the teams have a direct connection in local law enforcement in countries globally (some, unfortunately, more useless than others...). One of the stats that often the most misquoted is the 15(?) Million reported child exploitation activities on Facebook out of just 16 million that are reported broadly. The sad reason for this I'd that fb is the only company that works very hard to track these cases and report them to the authorities (the 15m reports were made by fb, the company, and not by good people on the platform...).
Currently listening to the episode. Damn, hard to stomach.
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You know this won't work because you know if it works on child porn it will work on trade secret and identity theft right? You can't have it both ways. US passed law to mandate encryption export ban, so every tech company developed encryption in Israel, so now US have no tech in encryption anymore.