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Child safety org launches AI model trained on real child sex abuse images (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today, a prominent child safety organization, Thorn, in partnership with a leading cloud-based AI solutions provider, Hive, announced the release of an AI model designed to flag unknown CSAM at upload. It's the earliest AI technology striving to expose unreported CSAM at scale.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

If AI was reliable, maybe. MAYBE. But guess what? It turns out that “advanced autocomplete” does a shitty job of most things, and I bet false positives will be numerous.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

This is not that kind of AI.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

It's possible to have a good AI system, but it takes millions of dollars and several thousand manhours to do, and most companies won't put in the effort.

But, there should always be a human in the loop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"detect new or previously unreported CSAM and child sexual exploitation behavior (CSE), generating a risk score to make human decisions easier and faster."

False positives don't matter if they stick to the stated intended purpose of making it easier to detect CSAM manually.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

if they stick to the stated intended purpose

They never do.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The problem is that they won't.

Yes, AI tools, in the hands of skilled people, can be very helpful.

But "AI" in capitalism doesn't mean "more effective workers", it means "fewer workers." The issue isn't technological so much as cultural. You fundamentally cannot convince an MBA not to try to automate away jobs.

(It's not even a money thing; it's about getting rid of all those pesky "workers rights" that workers like to bring with us)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Here's the thing. This technology is unequivocally one of the things AI would be very useful for. It can potentially do a lot of good. Yes, MBAs could screw it up like they screw anything else up in society. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be happy that we've created this new tech.