The Problem with Perceptual Hashes

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  • open_nsfw

    Discontinued Not Suitable for Work (NSFW) classification using deep neural network Caffe models.

  • AFAIK Discord's NSFW filter is not a perceptual hash nor uses the NCMEC database (although that might indeed be in the pipeline elsewhere) but instead uses a ML classifier (I'm certain it doesn't use perceptual hashes as Discord doesn't have a catalogue of NSFW image hashes to compare against). I've guessed it's either open_nsfw[0] or Google's Cloud Vision since the rest of Discord's infrastructure uses Google Cloud VMs. There's a web demo available of this api[1].

    0: https://github.com/yahoo/open_nsfw

    1: https://cloud.google.com/vision#section-2

  • nodejs-vision

    Discontinued Node.js client for Google Cloud Vision: Derive insight from images.

  • AFAIK Discord's NSFW filter is not a perceptual hash nor uses the NCMEC database (although that might indeed be in the pipeline elsewhere) but instead uses a ML classifier (I'm certain it doesn't use perceptual hashes as Discord doesn't have a catalogue of NSFW image hashes to compare against). I've guessed it's either open_nsfw[0] or Google's Cloud Vision since the rest of Discord's infrastructure uses Google Cloud VMs. There's a web demo available of this api[1].

    0: https://github.com/yahoo/open_nsfw

    1: https://cloud.google.com/vision#section-2

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