UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)

DC-3•about 2 hours 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.

unglaublich•about 1 hour ago

I guess CSAM detection will remain hard as the training data raises so many ethical concerns.

I wonder if there's a way in which we can forward-hash sensitive material like CSAM and train a classifier that only consumes the 'hashed' version of the material for training and detection.

maaaaattttt•15 minutes ago

Very naive approach but wouldn't training a model on a few specific buckets like "someone is naked", "image is explicit" and "there is a child" in the picture, would do the job without having to train explicitely on CSAM? If the model returns both a high probability of "there is a child" and a high probability of any other bucket than this image is classified as CSAM. It'd be high recall,low precision but one would be on a rather safe side.

PxldLtd•15 minutes ago

This is already done, there's hashed indexes of known CSAM and you can apply vector steering to the latent space to shift detections to trigger on CSAM material. You can also use two detectors for age estimation and a separate one for nudity and use them in combination.

tao_oat•21 minutes ago

I believe this is how many CSAM classifiers work. There isn't a simple legal avenue to host CSAM for classifier training, for good reason.

RobotToaster•about 2 hours ago

Weird, with it being from the UAE I'd expect it to detect any woman with an exposed ankle as porn.

gumby•about 1 hour 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.

wolvoleo•about 1 hour 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.

Alcohol is illegal there, homosexuality is, even unmarried sex is.

I certainly will never visit there even if they choose not to apply those laws to me as a visitor.

figmert•about 1 hour ago

What a strange Islamophobic comment to make. You should probably go out a little more.

echelon_musk•30 minutes ago

Afghanistan.

instagraham•about 2 hours 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.

dfish•about 2 hours ago

It's for research purposes :wink: :wink:

waffleiron•about 1 hour ago

There are plenty western CSAM detection models

DC-3•39 minutes ago

Can you suggest a good one?

sillyfluke•about 2 hours 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.

ggm•about 3 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.

totetsu•about 2 hours ago

Planet-scale nude-selfie extenuation racket?

londons_explore•about 1 hour 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_explore•about 1 hour ago

Smells like someone is botting the download numbers to get a press release....

TacticalCoder•13 minutes ago

> UAE AI model tops 50 million monthly downloads

So in a bit more than a year, 10% of the planet has downloaded a NSFW classifier?

I mean: in the end there are only 8 billion people on earth, which projects do, all added up, need to download one NSFW classifier 600 million times a year?

Something something something makes me think there are inefficiencies at play here.

UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)

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