Comments on: Photobucket says it erred in censoring diapered babies

Photobucket to restore photos of babies in diapers that it removed claiming they violated terms of service by depicting "nudity."

[anon8mizer]

Photobucket should fire the 'flesh detection' software vendor

All of these photo sites use some kind of 'flesh detection' software to scan the photos and detect pictures that have a high 'human flesh vs non-human flesh' ratio. You have to train the software to learn what's 'naked' and what's not naked. Apparently the software isn't all that great.

Photobucket says their 'team' reviews the photos. That's bull. They don't have enough $$ to hire enough people to review the photos. The first pass is always done by the flesh-tone detection software, and if the software says, "I have 90% confidence that this photo has nudity" then it's automatically rejected without any human review. It's only when people complain about it, that the human team will go back and take a look to correct the software's mistakes.

[kts2oo1]

These are real people.

As a former photobucket employee I can honestly tell you that
one of the differentiators of Photobucket is the human review.
And yes, they actually do employ real people who go over and
scan the photos; it is not software screened. Photobucket
evaluated a lot of software during the process of determining
how to do it's content moderation and found little that was good
enough to depend on; so instead, they built a team to do it. And
that team is filled with some of the bravest people I've come
across in the web 2.0 industry.

I can't stop you from assuming what you'd like, anon8mizer.
However, the amount of effort the content moderators put in to
reviewing every photo that goes on the site is astounding. So
don't take credit away where credit is more than due. Everyone
makes mistakes; it's more important how we deal with and learn
from those mistakes. In this case, I think Photobucket handled it
properly.

[umbrae]

Why automated filters should not be used...

Its fine if it is on a personal PC to protect your family, but big businesses should not use filtering since it is not accurate. Wait until ISPs bow to the RIAA and MPAA and use filtered. Content will be deleted/blocked on a wide scale.

[spruceman]

Interesting re flesh detection

So if the person is wearing a hat, a shirt, and socks up to the knees, the proportion of flesh is low enough so nekkid groin shots would pass muster? Or put in a bit of coloring into the flesh so it passes? Now that the auto flesh detection cat is out of the bag, surely there will be folks who test its limits! (LOL)

[ralahinn1]

lol, I can see the jokers now

^_^ with April fools day coming up, I can see that some wags out there would"paint" a suit on, just to see if they could pass "inspection"

[aussiemommy]

They keep the photos?

Its odd that Photobucket kept the photos, making them available to restore to Goodmama's account. If they found the photos so offensive and inappropriate (which is absolutely ridiculous in itself), why did Photobucket retain the photos instead of permanently deleting them? Really makes you ponder who the inappropriate party was in this situation.

I, for one, find absolutely NO offense in a photo of a child in a diaper. Showing of your Goodmama is one of the fun benefits of owning one!

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