Nude.js: Nudity Detection with JavaScript
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I don't see how this is stupid. Personally, the more I understand how technology works, the more I find myself not trusting big parts of it. In particular, I don't expect nudity detection to work well at this point in time, especially given that typical image processing algorithms are heuristics that feel like smart hacks at best.
"Rated 'mature' for sexual content? No way!"
"Aw, man! Ok, how about this one?"
"Rated 'mature' for extreme graphic violence? Well... ok."
Looks like a post straight from reddit.
My story is about another perverse way in which puritannical culture considers sex taboo, but violence perfectly acceptable.
2. I don't know how to respond to being called a liar outright. It doesn't seem likely that I'd be able to convince you that this happened.
3. I've only been to reddit two or three times and didn't see the value. So I wouldn't be a good judge of that. I take that that's supposed to be derogatory in some way.
4. I'm not sure how you're trying to add to the discussion. I was making a comment on the societal and moral underpinnings and ramifications of the kind of technology described in TFA. If I may make a suggestion: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
As for calling you liar, I apologize. Next time I will just use the flag button. Thanks.
There are currently at least 11 people who thought it was relevant enough to upvote. I agree that flagging was probably the most appropriate recourse for you.
I accept your apology.
It's not really that complicated. Sex is private, violence is public.
No one likes violence but they don't try to shield children because it's a public matter and kids can know about it. People like sex, but it's a private matter and kids shouldn't be watching it.
You are trying to make it about approves vs disapproves, but that's not what it is.
That's also why the same parent would not be OK with a scene of someone on the toilet, even if they arranged their clothes to be fully covered.
I'm not sure it obviously follows, though, that because it's private it's inappropriate for children, but not inappropriate for adults. A counterexample would be any private emotional moment between two people. Please enlighten me further.
Orthogonally, I think it is fairly self-evident that extreme graphic violence isn't appropriate for children, though not because it's private. At the very least, I don't understand why it's ok to be so cavalier about it.
Plenty of people think it is for adults as well. But adults can choose to override their feeling on the matter (and that's what makes it so exciting). That's why clinical or medical depictions of nudity don't have the same feel.
> any private emotional moment between two people
An emotional moment is not inherently private though. Many moments are, but many are not, so it's diluted.
> it is fairly self-evident that extreme graphic violence isn't appropriate for children, though not because it's private.
Yup, and since it's a different type of issue, parents will permit a certain degree of violence - it depends of the type of violence. But for sexual material they will veto anything, and not try to determine how sexual it is.
1. The anecdote above was re picking out a video game, so I don't think any nudity was real. I can't remember, but I think it was a Grand Theft Auto game.
2. That doesn't really speak to the question of why people are so afraid of nudity.
It's so relaxed!
On the other hand, unfortunately I have to get all my games from amazon.co.uk so I don't have to pay extra money to amazon Germany to check my age when buying video games :-(
I see what you did there :-P
"Analysis" is the word that should've been used.
(this is almost as painful a turn-of-phrase as "physicalization")
Results were generally good, but notable false positives include a pastrami sandwich.
(Sorry for this poor joke)
That's not necessarily what happened here, but I am slightly suspicious.
Making comments requires thought. Finding interesting content is time consuming. But arbitraging Reddit content, that's trivial.
@pg - can we just remove the karma score? People should contribute because they feel they have something to add to the community, not to get points.
This time though.. nude.js was covered 60 issues ago. But still, probably plenty of links in those archives to be submitted(!)
Only after a minute or so did I consider that its primary purpose might be to help people implement porno-blocking software, ie the exact opposite.
I am such a bro :(