UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)(www.middleeastainews.com)
17 pointsby instagraham2 hours ago5 comments
  • londons_explore4 minutes ago
    How many people download classifiers?

    The number of downloads really doesn't seem like a good way to measure the quality of a bit of work. One download could be deployed on a bit website and classify billions of users images.

  • londons_explore3 minutes ago
    Smells like someone is botting the download numbers to get a press release....
  • DC-3an hour 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.
    • RobotToaster40 minutes ago
      Weird, with it being from the UAE I'd expect it to detect any woman with an exposed ankle as porn.
      • figmert2 minutes ago
        What a strange Islamophobic comment to make. You should probably go out a little more.
      • gumby4 minutes ago
        Have you been to the UAE? Sure t the beach there re women in burkinis and more, but also women in two piece bikinis.
        • wolvoleo3 minutes ago
          There's a big difference between international jersetters partying in Dubai and locals.

          The jersetters are basically exempted from the strict laws because they bring in money.

    • instagrahaman hour 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?

      (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.

      • dfish34 minutes ago
        It's for research purposes :wink: :wink:
      • sillyfluke33 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.
  • ggm2 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.
    • totetsuan hour ago
      Planet-scale nude-selfie extenuation racket?
  • nlanandkumar2 hours ago
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