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Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem (www.theverge.com)

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Not a good look for Mastodon - what can be done to automate the removal of CSAM?

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[-] fubo@lemmy.world 173 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vb515nd6874/20230724-fediverse-csam-report.pdf

I'd suggest that anyone who cares about the issue take the time to read the actual report, not just drama-oriented news articles about it.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 51 points 1 year ago

If I can try to summarize the main findings:

Computer-generated (e.g.., Stable Diffusion) child porn is not criminalized in Japan, and so many Japanese Mastodon servers don't remove it
Porn involving real children is removed, but not immediately, as it depends on instance admins to catch it, and they have other things to do. Also, when an account is banned, the Mastodon server software is not sending out a "delete" for all of their posted material (which would signal other instances to delete it)

Problem #2 can hopefully be improved with better tooling. I don't know what you do about problem #1, though.

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Such a signal exists in the ActivityPub protocol, so I wonder why it's not being used.

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