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I know that it allows NSFW content after age verification. I am curious how well it works (or how well it is intended to work) to prevent both intentional and accidental illegal content creation. Florida law for instance criminalizes images of "sexual activity" involving fake individuals that appear under 18 to a "reasonable" person. So ideally the platform would be preventing such images from being able to be created intentionally, or at least make it sufficiently difficult such that criminal intent is required to produce them.

If it is easy to intentionally create illegal content this generally implies it is possible to accidentally create it. For example, if a user creates and saves a batch of 100 images with a prompt specifying a subject of age 19 "engaged in sexual activity" (which, can be as simple as "lewd exposure of the buttocks" according to law) and we suppose that the ai generator agrees both with the prompt and, on average, with the average age estimation of "reasonable" people, but has an age standard deviation of 1 year then that is an expected value of 2-3 illegal (i.e., <=17 year old images as defined by the average of all "reasonable people.")

If the filtering is this lax, then it seems the generator would be both harmful to users by allowing them to accidentally create illegal content and also useful to criminals to generate illegal content purposefully. I AM NOT SAYING THIS IS THE CASE. I am just saying it would be if the filtering system is not sufficiently strict. That is why I am interested to know what, exactly is being done in terms of filtering.

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[–] Geok@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's good. I would hope there is at least some filter. I'm interested how exactly exactly it works and how stringent it is. Obviously it is designed to allow NSFW content but not illegal content which I think is a problem that takes at least a decent amount of effort to do well.

[–] ccufcc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There are prompt text filters, if you type something NSFW, even the results seems okay it will still be filtered. And upgraded to prevent CP - could be regx or AI - if the text is too sus to CP it won't even let you click generate.

And there's also a image filter bot, this AI learns no prompt but just looking the pic to decide filtered or not.

And there's also shocking images filter - don't know how it's designed but it's the second layer of too disturbing NSFW. This filter mechanism seems the weakest and inconsistent. it should be the same bot as above.

All have flaws and have someway to bypass but better than nothing.

[–] Geok@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Got it. What about questionable words, like words that could be valid descriptors of legal images and also illegal ones. If someone typed:

teen (some sexual stuff, eye color, other irrelevant stiff, etc) then they might be referring to 18-19 (c.f. the "teen" category on legitimate porn sites) or the might be looking for 13-17 stuff.

So would the generator

a) block this prompt because of the key word teen? b) allow the prompt but edit "teen" to "18-19"? c) allow the prompt as is but the AI would make sure to generate something 18+ essentially because it knows anytime it makes something sexual it is supposed to be 18+? d) randomly generate an image that could be anywhere from 13-19?? (the distribution would probably skewed to the higher age end just because there is more training data matching that collection of words) but still!

[–] ccufcc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not that smart or strict. And what's likely limited to generate is obvious toddler only. Teen? The users gen as many as they like in any situations.

[–] Geok@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wow, okay. So I guess my conclusion in that case would be that the filter is not very strong. So then it's pretty easy for people to generate illegal stuff consistently if they try and probably also pretty possible for people to occasionally generate stuff that is illegal by accident?