Porn Spam on Google Maps
By @edent
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User Generated Content is great, innit? As a company, I want users to submit photos, so I don't have to do any content curation. Moderation? Nah mate, stick some AI on there to filter out anything offensive and we're golden.
*sigh*
What could this possibly mean? I searched for Loch Ness on Google Maps.
Oh! Hey! Someone's posted a 360 photosphere from the very centre of the Loch! 
Huh... That doesn't look like the beautiful Scottish countryside. I wonder what happens if I pan around...?
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(Redacted for his privacy and your comfort.)
It's pretty easy to upload spam to Google Maps. I suspect that whatever BIG DATA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ALGORITHMS they have simply don't work on panoramic photos.
Anyway, I reported it - yay for doing unpaid labour for a megacorporation - and it has vanished.
The thing is, this isn't a mistake or a glitch. There's a user who literally enjoys repeatedly posting these photos to scenic locations.
I know the "wisdom of the crowds" means that large companies don't have to worry about bad actors⸮ But perhaps Google could spend a little of its time and money moderating the content it displays. If one determined user is able to gain this many views - what could a more malicious user accomplish?
Be seeing you!
Oh the old Time To Penis for user generated content
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OllieJC says:
Oo, it'd be neat if they used the satellite imagery in the tagged location for any image uploaded and flagged anything that was out-of-context.
In the Loch Ness example, if the image wasn't of a lake or in a boat on a lake then.. quarantine the image!
Not sure what the false positive rate would look like. I kinda want to give programming it up a try, but I feel like I have enough projects on the go to attempt this 😅
"In the Loch Ness example, if the image wasn't of a lake or in a boat on a lake..."
Or a dinosaur-like creature?
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