• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
      33·
      1 年前

      Those less responsible authors should be shown this study from the same organization last month showing similar problems on Twitter

      In the course of the investigation, researchers found that despite the availability of image hashes to identify and remove known CSAM, Twitter experienced an apparent regression in its mitigation of the problem. Using PhotoDNA, a common detection system for identified instances of known CSAM, matches were identified on public profiles, bypassing safeguards that should have been in place to prevent the spread of such content. This gap was disclosed to Twitter’s Trust & Safety team which responded to address the issue. However, the failure highlights the need for platforms to prioritize user safety and the importance of collaborative research efforts to mitigate and proactively counter online child abuse and exploitation.

      That being said, people who code for the Fediverse should see this report and pay particular attention to things like

      Current tools for addressing child sexual exploitation and abuse online—such as PhotoDNA and mechanisms for detecting abusive accounts or recidivism—were developed for centrally managed services and must be adapted for the unique architecture of the Fediverse and similar decentralized social media projects.

      I honestly don’t know crap about coding, but this seems like a very solvable problem and something I’d very much like for the people who do to engage with. I would absolutely donate some money to support a project like this.

      e; I guess what I meant to say is I would absolutely donate some money to purchase API keys from Microsoft

      • MeowdyPardner@kbin.social
        7·
        1 年前

        I actually just saw that Dansup is working on adding optional opt-in support for PhotoDNA in pixelfed if an instance admin adds a PhotoDNA API key, I wonder if that was spurred on by this report. Hopefully Mastodon also looks into adding support.

        • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 年前

          Nice, yeah hopefully this feature or something that accomplishes the same spreads* throughout the Fediverse quickly

          *Like, it would be really cool if there was a way to fight child porn that didn’t involve relying on a for profit company, but chipping away at our screwed up economic system is a lower priority than stopping child abuse

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
        3·
        1 年前

        After a bit of reading, another option may simply be to include a “report” button that generates a hash of the image and federates the list. That being said, their may be a similarity algorithm under the hood of PhotoDNA that works better. Hard to say since it’s all proprietary and pay-for-membership. Prices aren’t even listed publicly unless you use a cloud API.

    • Gnubyte@lemdit.comOP
      1·
      1 年前

      I appreciate you doing a level headed job of explaining this and dropping a link. Cheers!

  • Gnubyte@lemdit.comOP
    243·
    1 年前

    Commenting my $0.02 How fucking bullshit is this. I looked into the report and it’s a report from Stanford. It’s the same loli crap you see on 4chan and even twitter sometimes.

  • chameleon@kbin.social
    9·
    1 年前

    The report hints at it but doesn’t really say it out loud: get rid of one particular server and there goes 99% of it, along with 90% or so of the overall Japanese userbase (as they were the first big Japanese instance and had a mostly-trusted locally relevant company behind it). But nearly every non-Japanese-orientated instance already either fully defederated from it or has something to strip media content from it. It’s essentially its own thing not really related to Mastodon aside from the software in use.

  • ArugulaZ@kbin.social
    9·
    1 年前

    Luckily, I don’t see anything like that on Mastodon. Unfortunately, I don’t see much of anything on Mastodon.

    • Gnubyte@lemdit.comOP
      3·
      1 年前

      I’ve seen a lot of great stuff on Mastodon but when it starts to become overwhelmingly political, I dip out. Problem is that you have to follow an abrasive amount of random people to start seeing anything across their fediverse. Shit in the beginning, awesome/hits the mark at least in terms of twitter replacement - after you follow enough people.

      • ArugulaZ@kbin.social
        5·
        1 年前

        You’re right, I do need to build up my watch list. I’m just not sure where to start. I’ll probably have to parasitize the watch lists of the few people I’m already watching.

        • eldrichhydralisk@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          1 年前

          Hashtags are also a good place to start! For example, if you’re looking for science content you can follow the #science hashtag. Once you have those posts coming in to your feed, start following the people and hashtags you’re seeing on the posts you like best. It’ll start snowballing from there.

          Also, don’t worry too much about following too much at first. Get that feed populated, then pare it down later. Filtering is pretty powerful too, so a lot of times you can get the good parts of a hashtag and filter out the bad parts instead of the all-or-nothing following of some social media.

    • Gnubyte@lemdit.comOP
      2·
      1 年前

      There was some theorycrafting from some of the react devs on twitter that they were striking mastodon from twitter on purpose to eliminate people becoming aware of it.

  • yip-bonk@kbin.social
    73·
    1 年前

    WaPo’s coverage of the 2016 Presidential race was a master class in journalistic nihilism. Why sure, let’s read their point of view on social media via a study they found that supports it.