Given the fact that there are billions of images out there and only a tiny handful are legitimately child pornography, even an exceedingly small false positive rate would put a whole lot of people in the hot seat.
How would you like it if the cops busted down your front door because you accidentally uploaded to Facebook a picture of your new baby having a bath? What if the pageant photo of your daughter was automatically classified as sufficiently pornographic? Handcuffs for everyone.
Once computers are involved, people blindly trust them, and from there there's nothing but trouble.
Google's smart. How could it ever get anything wrong?
Sorry, I didn't mean for my comment on machine learning to be taken as any sort of argument that either:
a) it is possible to build an expert system to classify online content into 'infringing' vs. 'non-infringing'
b) were it possible to build such a system, attaching the deployment of such a system to a piece of federal legislation would be a legitimate use of government power
How would you like it if the cops busted down your front door because you accidentally uploaded to Facebook a picture of your new baby having a bath? What if the pageant photo of your daughter was automatically classified as sufficiently pornographic? Handcuffs for everyone.
Once computers are involved, people blindly trust them, and from there there's nothing but trouble.
Google's smart. How could it ever get anything wrong?