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I don't know how you get the impression that this increases censorship.
Instance admin already manually block content. And they are already able to do that to any extend they wish to do.
This tool would simply automate that process.
Admins would not gain or lose any ability to block content. Identifying child porn would simply be easier.
(Imagine an admin going to their database and doing a CTRL+F with the term "child porn", and then going through the posts to find offending ones. But instead of CTRL+F it's an AI.)
(For some reason I don't get a notification when you answer my comment. Is that a known issue? Did you block me or something?)
I'm referring to the CSAM scanning systems that are outside of the control of almost anyone except governments, three letter agencies, other law enforcement and parts of the private sector.
These systems must be fed every hash of every file submitted to as many instances as possible to be efficient with close to no oversight or public scrutiny.
Pass.
Edit: I'm not blocking you but I noticed intermittent connectivity issues on lemmy.ml today, possibly around the time where I replied.
Well... precisely?
Censorship is any removal of material considered "undesirable", whether you agree with why it is considered "undesirable" or not.
If you want more censorship of "material that you personally consider undesirable", then just say so, don't hide behind some disingenuous "but it isn't censorship". Then we can discuss the merits of that classification, and of the means proposed to achieve such censorship.
You seem to be missing my point.
This tool would not increase censorship.
Admins are already able to implement all censorship they want.
Admins are already able to block left-wing opinions, right-wing opinions, child porn, normal porn.
And that already happens.
Lots of instances (like feddit.de) block pornographic content.
Lots of instances (like lemmy.blahaj.zone) block right-wing content.
It is already possible, and it is already happening.
An AI which can detect CSAM (and potentially other content) won't change that. It will simply make the admins' job easier.
I think you're missing the opposite point.
An AI trained on a given instance's admin decisions, would increase the same censorship the admins already apply. We can agree on that.
An AI trained by a third-party on unknown data (and actually illegal to be known) which can detect "CSAM (and potentially other content)", would increase censorship of both CSAM... and of "potentially other content" out of the control, preferences or knowledge of the instance admins.
Using an external service to submit ALL content for an AI trained by a third-party to make a decision, not only allows the external service to collect ALL the content (not just the censored one), but also to change the decision parameters without previous notice, or any kind of oversight, and apply it to ALL content.
The problem is a difference between:
One is an AI that can make mistakes, but mostly follows whatever an admin would do. The other, is a 100% surveillance state nightmare in the name of filtering 0.03% of content.