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You got it! The categorization algorithm can detect pornographic submissions. Users can also report images they receive. However, instead of simply blocking dick pics, I'll re-route them to other dick pic senders.



Are the other more benign categories also rerouted in the same way?

Being able to for example, send a picture of a book knowing I'd get one back would be pretty nifty. Food would be a popular topic for swapping pics judging by the main page.


Not yet, but great idea! I'll definitely add that to the feature list.


2nd me for that feature. This might actually be a key feature for me. I'm not that interested in random pics (beyond the "neat" factor at least), but being able to snap pictures of my code and seeing someone elses code? Or of my new car, and their new car? etcetc.

It's like posting to a subreddit, but super low friction (no title, no finding the appropriate subreddit, etc). Really nifty idea


The best way to handle that.

Well, unless you want to use geolocation and match them up by ___location. Think of all the romance you could spark of you knew what sort of genitalia people sending were hoping of receiving.


That's just mean. :P


Hah. Some poor grandmother who sends photos of her cacti collection might be getting a ton of dick pics.

joking aside, while i agree with your model, i'd be curious to see cases where users get trapped in these auto-identified sub-worlds of obscenity. I imagine as we get better at content recognition this model will become more prevalent, and thus innocent crossfire will be more commonplace (even if to the tiniest degree).

Interesting times we're heading into


What sort of algorithm are you using for image classification?


I'm using the Watson Visual Recognition API: http://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/visual-recognition....


Brilliant. My favorite (on the site) is the pic tagged 'party'.




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