a tumbling starfish

"Cold is my least favourite temperature"

[marleencrossing]

*gets stuck on a mission in a game* *doesn’t play for another 4234 years*

[lauralot89]

Once, I encountered the funny story of an AI image descriptor with a sheep obsession. It had been trained on pictures of fields of sheep. Therefore, it tagged anything in a field as 'sheep', including an empty field, because they work on statistical probability. Therefore, it thinks "ah, a field! there's probably a sheep here." (It's a bit more complicated but basically that.) It also couldn't recognise sheep in places that weren't fields, such as petrol stations or barns. [cont]

Now, the alarming aspect of this story is that the very same technology is probably what tumblr is using to identify porn. Now, if it can’t tell that an empty field is not, in fact, full of sheep, what hope do we have that it can’t tell an empty room isn’t full of writing human forms engaged in passionate coitus?

this really does sound like an episode of black mirror

[architeuthism]

But wait, it’s even weirder than that!

[retroactivebakeries]

This is gonna produce some absolutely baffling pornography.

[crazy-pages]

…. oh my fucking god they actually are using open source software. They’re using a fucking one-layer unidirectional bicategory tag-trained neural network. This will never work. Literally, it will never work. There’s just not enough algorithmic complexity to do what they’re asking of it. I bet you I could prove on a mathematical level that this joke of a neural net fundamentally lacks the abstraction necessary to do its job.

This will never get better. Their algorithm will never stop fucking up, it will never actually flag porn reliably and it will always require a massive quantity of human hours to deal with the deluge of mistagged pictures. This isn’t just a case of an insufficiently trained algorithm, it’s just … this is the most basic neural network you can make. It probably hasa a lot of neurons and has loads of training data but like … you can’t just brute force this kind of stuff. One layer of neurons is just Not Enough.

[crazy-pages]

Also, just to make this clear, Tumblr lied. I mean, we already know this, but I mean they liiiieeeeed. All that stuff they promised about what would or would not be censored? That cannot be delivered on with a system this simple. Nude classical sculptures, political protests, male-presenting nipples (really Tumblr?), nude art outside the context of sex, all that? You cannot train a bicategory one-layer neural network to exclude those things. It cannot be done. Tumblr never intended for those things to actually be permitted, they were just lying. Because the system they have cannot actually do what they said it would and never will be able to.

Also, this kind of system is super vulnerable to counter-neural strategies. I bet you before the end of the month someone hooks up their own open source one layer bicategory neural network which puts an imperceptible (to humans) layer of patterned static over arbitrary images, and trains it by having it bot-post static-ed images to Tumblr and reinforcing based on whether the images are labeled nsfw or sfw. Seriously, within a month someone will have an input-output machine which can turn any image ‘sfw’ in Tumblr’s eyes.

This is genuinely pathetic. Like, I have real pity for whoever implemented this, because it’s clear Tumblr doesn’t actually have any engineers with any expertise with machine learning left at all and they foisted the job off on some poor bastard who has no idea what they’re doing and is going to get all kinds of flak for their (perfectly reasonable and predetermined) failure from management.

[garbage-empress]

As has been pointed out before, there are no humans behind this at all. The review process just reruns either the same algorithm or another algorithm, but people have posted screen shots showing obviously SFW pictures that were still deemed NSFW on review, despite the fact that any human, no matter how overworked / tired would have seen that these pictures were not porn.

[trapcard]

The reason why the everything is being flagged as nsfw is because tumblr is essentially relying on us to train the AI it created. They need us to report the flagged posts so the AI can learn what is and isn’t a violation. So I wanna know where is my money cuz I’m doing tumblr’s job

[toritheestallion-deactivated201]

honestly if tumblr does die like a good 75% of twitter users are screwed cause they’ve been ripping off posts from here and blocking everyone who calls them out

[grungegoths]

They copypasted this to twitter too lmfao

[colinquinn]

@staff u pack of bastards

[datmos]

bread is illegal now

[poupon]

[marikazemus34]

[carbonoid]

[haetae]

[brucesterling]

*Meanwhile, on Twitter

[made-of-fairy-dust]

[snowysauropteryx]

I'm sorry what? Human milk is.... funky sweat?? What?? You cannot just dump that in the tags, oh my god, explain yourself.

So, great news! All mammal milk (including that of humans) is modified, nutrient dense sweat!

Monotremes (like the echidna and platypus) do not have specialized nipples but instead have patches of skin that ‘sweat’ milk to keep their eggs moisturized, and then to feed their young, which lap it off of their uh…skin.

Paleontologists think that this feature probably evolved from either non-mammalian synapsids or early mammals keeping their eggs nice and supple (instead of the hard-shelled eggs of birds) and eventually the childes just…. started….licking it, and I guess it helped them out nutritionally.

Therians (Mammals that have nipples; placentals and marsupials) have glands/nipples specifically for the purposes of nursing their young with this funky modified sweat we call milk, but yeah. It’s sweat. It’s funky nutritious sweat.

Gosh I love evolution.

[swordshapedleaves]

@vocifersaurus further proof your hobby is gross ♥️

[erubes1-deactivated20200420]

When the sun says goodbye

[copal-sq]

木、鹿、木、鹿、木、鹿

萌えは交互にやってくる。

ｷ･ｼ･ｶ♪ ｷｼｶ ｷ･ｼ･ｶ♪

[unseeliesincebirth]

Come away, O human child To the waters and the wild With a Faerie, hand in hand For the world’s more full of weeping Than you can understand

[apricitic]

go find what a fic of ur life would be tagged as on ao3

[apricitic]

i   h a v e   m a d e   a   m i s t a k e

[bigdickwizard]

strictly platonic therapy rimming

[theartofanimation]

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[justinejoli]

Neat

[coiour-my-world]

morning tranquility ~ higrace

[what-even-is-thiss]

You know just how long 2018 has been? You know how long?

Did you even remember there was an Olympic games this year? Because I didn’t. I thought oh, last year. No. There was a winter Olympics in Korea and I forgot about it.

[softestvirgil]

You know how long this year has been? The tide pod thing happened in January of this year

[what-even-is-thiss]

The royal wedding was only in May I am so upset

[kellanbee]

Black Panther came out in February