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Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw (2016)

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Main work seems to be two years old from the github time stamps?

The generation of images using GANs has improved a lot since then. It would be interesting to see what the latest and greatest methods can do given this data set.

The purpose of this work isn't to generate realistic NSFW images. The purpose is to visually represent what a neural network "looks for" when classifying NSFW content. It is very interesting that these generate images strike the viewer as grotesque even though there isn't anything specific in the images that could be called vulgar. This indicates there is some similarity between how a neural network and our brains classify things.

I wonder where the line is drawn on obscenity for most people? On the NSFW, you can make out some the textures or shapes of different body parts, but none of it is clearly obscene. But there's a general feeling that it is obscene. I wonder where we would draw the line.

Ultimately we draw the line at what 5 Supreme Court justices would subjectively consider to be obscene.

https://corporate.findlaw.com/litigation-disputes/movie-day-...

> for most people I think it's really dependent on the individual. Also those 5 judges preside over a nation of only 250M people (1/23rd of the world population)

Heh; I assume that's essentially because your brain is running nearly the same detection system that this was trained on:)

Depends on who you are asking, which is the problem. Everyone’s frame of reference is different on the matter and I’m convinced the only reason pornography can exist in the US at all is because it would mean changing some part of the First Amendment. Even if I were opposed to pornography, I would be unwilling to open that can of worms.

(2016)

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22open_nsfw%22&sort=byPopular...

Thanks; added. Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12756462

The first set of NSFW images make me think the NN was trained on Cannibal Corpse album covers.

This is the stuff of nightmares.

The kind of porn one would see in hell after being condemned for sexual gluttony.

The pornographic dreams of Lovecraftian horrors.

Very H.R. Giger.

Not sure why you got downvoted, but Giger would love it I imagine. His were much more explicitly sexual but these are more ambiguously so. And those generated beach scenes were very reminiscent of Dali and Whiteley.

Interesting you posted this a few days ago, because I think it's relevant with yesterdays news of tumblr banning adult content and as a result, lots of images of trivial content (beaches etc) got flagged as porn. See also: https://www.jakeelwes.com/project-MLPorn.html

The concert NSFW set is amazing. The network just replaces people with giant penises. There's some real art somewhere in there.

my recent comments about how important having some systems like this open with self-hosting options for webmasters and user's privacy issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18525758

Glad to see this was released and hope some kind of cloud efforts can be used to make it better.

Welcome to the future, where computers can generate dick pics for you.

worst. porn. ever.

Needs some adversarial training...

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