Pornhub 想買 Tumblr?

看到 Pornhub 想要買 Tumblr 的新聞:「Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr and restore site to former porn-filled glory」。

如果是其他家買可能還沒感覺,但如果是 Pornhub 買的話真的有機會恢復往日榮光的感覺?當然本來已經被迫離開的那些人應該是不會回來...

機器學習與情色產業的問題

Bruce Schneier 提到了最近幾個剛好相關的議題,關於機器學習在情色產業使用時遇到的隱私議題:「Technology to Out Sex Workers」。

第一個提到的是 PornHub 用機器學習辨識演員以及各種「其他資訊」,這邊引用的報導是 TechCrunch 的「PornHub uses computer vision to ID actors, acts in its videos」:

PornHub is using machine learning algorithms to identify actors in different videos, so as to better index them.

The computer vision system can identify specific actors in scenes and even identifies various positions and… attributes.

第二個提到的是花名與真實身份連在一起的問題:

People are worried that it can really identify them, by linking their stage names to their real names.

最後是提到 Facebook 已經有能力這樣做,而且已經發生了:

Facebook somehow managed to link a sex worker's clients under her fake name to her real profile.

Her sex-work identity is not on the social network at all; for it, she uses a different email address, a different phone number, and a different name. Yet earlier this year, looking at Facebook’s “People You May Know” recommendations, Leila (a name I’m using using in place of either of the names she uses) was shocked to see some of her regular sex-work clients.

這個議題與 Mass surveillance 有點像...。