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| Name: | NSFW Venus: From Colonial Archives to Machine Learning Datasets |
| Authors: | Folders, Livia |
| Published Date: | 15 Jul. 2024 |
| Indexed Date: | 16 Aug. 2024 |
| Web Link: | https://unthinking.photography/articles/nsfw-venus-from-colonial-archives-to-machine-learning-datasets |
| Index Status: | Complete |
| Original Language: | English |
| Genre: | Non-Fiction |
| Citation: | Folders, Livia. “NSFW Venus: From Colonial Archives to Machine Learning Datasets.” Unthinking Photography, 15 Jul. 2024, https://unthinking.photography/articles/nsfw-venus-from-colonial-archives-to-machine-learning-datasets |
Summary
A small figurine called Venus of Willendorf, depicting a faceless woman with wide hips, was found in Austria by a dig funded by the Natural History Museum of the Imperial Court in Vienna. The article discusses the implications of training an algorithm called NudeNet, used for content moderation, with stolen pornographic images and the violation of the agency of the individuals captured in the images.