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<\/div>Peeling Back<\/h2>
Facebook’s automated anti-nudity filters finally stopped impressionable children from seeing unimaginable filth on their timelines: a pile of onions that was flagged for being inappropriate.<\/p>
Gaze Seed Company tried to advertise on Facebook using a picture of a pile of onions in a basket to market its seeds, CBC <\/a><\/em>reports<\/a>, but was blocked by Facebook’s algorithm. The official reason? Facebook’s algorithms decided that the picture was “overtly sexualized.” It’s a funny error, sure, and one that raises questions about the sorts of things these algorithms are into — but at a more basic level, it also illustrates that AI content moderation still isn’t ready<\/a> for prime time.<\/p> So we just got notified by Facebook that the photo used for our Walla Walla Onion seed is \"Overtly Sexual\" and therefore cannot be advertised to be sold on their platform… Posted by The Seed Company by E.W. Gaze<\/a> on Saturday, October 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div> Unfortunately, Gaze Seed Company’s post<\/a> didn’t clarify what exactly about the onions — which the ad describes as “extremely sweet, mild and large” — or their position was “overtly sexualized” like Facebook claims.<\/p> “We got notified the other day that it’s an ‘overtly sexual image’ that they had to ban from the site,” Gaze manager Jackson McLean told CBC<\/em>. “I guess something about the two round shapes there could be misconstrued as boobs or something, nude in some way.”<\/p> For now, McLean and the company are fighting what must be a bizarre — yet disruptive — algorithmic glitch.<\/p> “I just thought it was funny,” McLean told CBC<\/em>. “You’d have to have a pretty active imagination to look at that and get something sexual out of it.… ‘Overtly sexual,’ as in there’s no way of mistaking it as not sexual.”<\/p> “Hopefully an actual human gets to look at the photo to decide that it’s not actually sexual at all,” he added. “It’s just onions.”<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>This St. John’s seed company’s onions are too sexy for Facebook<\/a> [CBC<\/em>]<\/p> More on Facebook algorithms:<\/strong> Facebook Needs Humans *And* Algorithms To Filter Hate Speech<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post Facebook Algorithm Flags Onions as “Overtly Sexualized”<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Read more: Peeling Back Facebook\u2019s automated anti-nudity filters finally stopped impressionable children from seeing unimaginable filth on their timelines: a pile of onions that was flagged for being inappropriate. Gaze Seed Company tried to advertise on Facebook using a picture of a pile of onions in a basket to market its seeds, CBC reports , but was blocked by Facebook\u2019s algorithm. The official reason Continue reading ![\"?\"](\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/12.0.0-1\/72x72\/1f602.png\")
Can you see it?<\/p>Eat Your Veggies<\/h2>
Free The Onion<\/h2>
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