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The one thing AI would be good for... Humans shouldn't have to see that shit.
You'd need data to train an AI... Yeah that won't happen
the "risk" of false positives comes down to the consequence. if the consequence is being stuck in the slammer, don't use ai. if the consequence is you can't upload the image unless you manually appeal, or even maybe have to use an external image host; i think ai is fine
edit: ah bugger, wrong acct. ah well
(please tag @[email protected] if you want me to see your response)
yes, i agree. i don't think anyone should be banned off the back of an ai ruling; at most it should just immediately flag the admin team who could then review and ban. but i don't think it's too arduous to just have to upload to imgur or catbox instead. especially if the alternative is paying a team to do it manually, or shutting down
maybe i'm just old enough that externally hosting images on fora is the standard, and locally hosting is a newfangled feature that costs the site money; though. that's one of the reasons i like lemm.ee; and i've only used the local image feature once or twice apart from icons and banners
yes, this is really annoying.. but (and i don't know) it's possible that the cost of hosting images is what shuts these sites down. so you have the option of a forum with no images, or no forum at all. that's just conjecture though, i don't know
also, this bit isn't even true for the fediverse. if an instance (say, lemmy.world) goes down, a link like
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/168a4571-489d-46d8-b1d2-48acb6a3d1c2.png
will be dead even though the thread, community, and lemmy as a whole are still up[^1]you could have a prompt saying: "Your post may have been detected as CSAM. You may post it using an external image host, or appeal and wait for an admin to adjudicate"; thus informing people of their options
but the point is: without using ai, you have the option of: 1) no uploading of images at all, 2) relying on user reports (too slow and unreliable for illegal content), 3) no image uploads at all. now whilst i personally am a fan of the latter, i think it's objectively worse for the majority of people
basically; if there aren't enough admins to do this with ai; there definitely aren't enough admins to do it without ai
you could get around this bit specifically by actually posting the post when it gets approved, from a backend point of view
[^1]: see: the whole lemmy.fmhy.ml fiasco