NSFW Training Data Social Engineering
Description
The meme is a vertical screenshot-style image with blue and purple chat bubbles on a black background above a reaction image of Barney dancing. The sender writes, "I'm working on a ML model which will flag inappropriate pictures on the internet as 'NSFW,' so I'm training it using inappropriate pictures. So if you can provide some nudes, you'll help make the internet a safer place"; the replies say "since it’s for a good cause" and "why not." The bottom reaction image is captioned "Cha Cha Real Smooth," turning dubious data collection for an NSFW classifier into a smooth social-engineering pitch disguised as machine learning work.
Comments
3Comment deleted
When your data pipeline starts with "trust me, it is for model evaluation," the ethics review has already failed open.
Lol Comment deleted
That's one way to get nudes Comment deleted