The country already uses artificial intelligence to identify explicit images on the internet.
Jiaotong University in China have developed and tested a 'mind-reading' device that will help implement the country's policy of censoring porn,Watching porn is a crime in China, and the country has put in place several processes to scan the internet and social media platforms for explicit content and take it down. This includes the extensive use ofjian huang shi
or"porn appraiser" these are positions held mostly by women who scour the photos and videos available on the internet in China. However, humans assigned to a task grow tired when doing it repeatedly, and fatigue throws up errors. Even A.I. algorithms can not pick all images, so some content still manages to slip unnoticed.
Speaking to SCMP, the researchers said that the performance of the human eye and brain at image recognition was far superior that A.I. -based algorithms. This was especially true when images contained complex backgrounds. During their research, the team had found that a nude image, even if it was shown for half a second amongst a stream of other images, raised the eyebrows of an observer. The researchers claim that the designed helmet can pick any spike in brainwaves that would result from explicit content. the helmet could take up the task of displaying images to the professional censor and continue to flip through a large number of images until the brain waves spiked and flag the content for removal.
The device was tested in a group of 15 male volunteers between the ages of 20-25 years. To comply with the national law against pornographic content, the sensitive bits of images had to be covered up during the testing phase. The researchers also told SCMP that the technology worked almost every time an explicit image was displayed but also threw up some false alarms.
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