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  • Always two sides to classification. Finding and Banning. It's tempting to ask if this is one, the other or both by the same people.
    by ggm
  • Planet-scale nude-selfie extenuation racket?
  • Coincidentally I was trying this out yesterday as a potential option for automated porn filtering for the imageboard that I administrate. It is very lightweight which is good but the performance is not great. Some weird false positives and it does a bad job with flat chested women which is very concerning to me because it leads me to think it won’t be effective against CSAM.
    by DC-3
  • it is amusing that a model from a country that has banned porn would ever be developed. Wouldn't there be hurdles for them to access "data" at every stage?

    (I know they must have used a VPN for training but it does seem like an added hoop. OFC the UAE's block is also not particularly thorough.)

    You'd assume such models would do better in a laissez-faire nsfw environment than in a walled garden of relatively-less sin.

UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025) · Birbla