Yahoo is machine learning the difference between a dirty and a not dirty picture TheINQUIRER

THE DEEP LEARNING people at Yahoo have set themselves and their supercomputers the task of looking at potentially rude pictures and giving them a'NSFW' or'OK for grandma' stamp. Teenagers do this every day as they frantically scan the bushes by the side of main roads for scraps of magazines and images that look like flesh. If machine learning has taught us one thing, it is that machines need to learn to be more like us. Boing Boing reported on a Yahoo project called open_nsfw that has a project page on GitHub. Teenagers can go back to collecting pocket monsters now, because it is low on NSFW shots, although that is the whole point of the thing.