LLMs and openCV are now getting small enough that we should all assume that we have Narcs built into our phones and computers. We’ve discussed this before since most phones are already doing OCR and face checking of our images and stuff. But like the tech has gotten small enough, fast enough that you could easily have something watching for subversiveness at this point.

Edit: I just meant CV in general not the open CV library.

What’s a good Android phone that you can get with a Chinese non-Google version of Android but which also has a cellular radio that covers the bands used in North America?

iOS has the same feature, called “Sensitive Content Warning”. They tried to make it a thing where it would send stuff to Apple if it detected hashes of known CP I think, which I guess is a bit different because it wasn’t machine learning (or was it, is the confusion intentional?). But they got so much criticism they rolled that back to what it is now. Where it doesn’t sending anything, and it has a toggle in the settings.

I think it’ll ramp up over time like a lot of other things. Using machine learning in more places. Phone operating systems already have so many services that contact remote servers. I’m sure that will only increase, and they’ll ramp up combining the machine learning with phoning home.

I still wonder about the US government’s interaction with tech company software. A quote from a Wikipedia article section on Dual_EC_DRBG in the BSAFE software, which I read recently.

The Reuters article which revealed the secret $10 million contract to use Dual_EC_DRBG described the deal as “handled by business leaders rather than pure technologists”.

Are there agreements with executives to implement these kinds of weird features that were clearly more work to implement than their apparent utility to end users? Do Google or Apple employees just have their boss say, “we’re prioritizing the nudity detector, get to work!” and that’s that? What kind of narrative do they cook up to make this make sense to the people implementing it? Because if I worked on something like this I’d be like, “why is this necessary to spend time on? Don’t we have a thousand other priorities?”

But who knows, maybe the point of this is just to have an automated nudity blur API that any app can use. The same way Hexbear has a NSFW blur feature but more sophisticated. And instead of using server power to detect it, they just do it on people’s phones so server hosts don’t have to pay for that electricity. idk.

This was on my phone and my SOs phone.

I said show nude images, google.

Is adb enough to get rid of this shit for good or is this one of those things where Google will constantly try to reinstall it in your device a la Microsoft?

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