At the most basic level, the reaction to Facebook’s effort stems from the company’s failure to proactively communicate its project and why it felt the submitted nude images needed human review. Of course, this raises the fundamental question of whether human review is actually necessary for Facebook’s new effort to succeed. Would it be possible to design a proactive anti-revenge porn system that did not require Facebook employees to manually examine each uploaded image? From a design standpoint, Facebook’s current pilot centralizes human review at submission time. Each uploaded image is reviewed by a human, digitally fingerprinted and added to Facebook’s banned content database.

Source: Forbes November 29, 2017 19:02 UTC