STORY: Small behavioral nudges stopped millions of people searching for child sexual abuse material on Pornhub.
For the last two years, the porn website has worked with child protection charities to run a chatbot on its website. Whenever anyone searches one of 34,000 terms linked to child abuse a large warning has appeared and the chatbot which offers people help for their behavior
4.4 million users saw the warning page after searches and 2.8 million saw the chatbot. This ended up with scores of people seeking support
https://www.wired.com/story/pornhub-chatbot-csam-help/ #tech #technology #news
@mattburgess Unfortunately, or perhaps, fortunately, this claim is false.
First off, from the terms I've seen, many of these terms do not involve child abuse. Not even actual children.
They even appear to be treating adult women *as* children (with a few terms), or appear to be pursuing whatever the charity deems to be obscene.
They also appear to overly interpret descriptors as relevant when they really seem quite fuzzy.
It is probable that they're driving away just as many people who aren't interested in pursuing CSAM from their site as they are those who are.
