UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)
16 points by instagraham 3 hours ago | 7 comments
ggm 2 hours ago
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.
replytotetsu 46 minutes ago
Planet-scale nude-selfie extenuation racket?
replyDC-3 46 minutes ago
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.
replyRobotToaster 24 minutes ago
Weird, with it being from the UAE I'd expect it to detect any woman with an exposed ankle as porn.
replyinstagraham 43 minutes ago
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?
reply(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.
sillyfluke 17 minutes ago
It's a story as old as time so I'm frankly less amused by it. The old school censors always saw every "data" that was taboo under the sun prior to censoring it for public consumption.
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