Fake prudes: Spoilsport AI bot taught to daub bikinis on naked chicks

NSFW Artificially intelligent software is used more and more to automatically detect and ban nude images on social networks and similar sites. However, today's algorithms and models aren't perfect at clocking racy snaps, and a lot of content moderation still falls to humans. Enter an alternative solution: use AI to magically draw bikinis on photos to, er, cover up a woman's naughty bits. A group of researchers from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, have trained generative adversarial networks to perform this very act, and automatically censor nudity. In a paper for the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) in Rio de Janeiro earlier this month, the eggheads presented some of their results.