Redfern posted at 1:35PM Mon, 21 January 2019 - #4343958

Obviously I'm way behind the times. I thought images were being flagged because of keyword descriptors. But you're saying there is software that is, in effect, "looking" at the image data itself? To use a silly example...

If, circle surrounded by circle, surrounded by circle, analyze colors. [...]

It's reached that level and then some. Go to tineye.com, or Google Image Search, and it sometime gets almost scary as to pattern recognition.

Problem is, it's not perfect, so occasionally it flags stuff that it shouldn't, but allows stuff that it shouldn't, if that makes sense.

One would hope that such algorithms were smart enough to take 'gray area' stuff and flag it for a human to eyeball and decide, but that would require someone's time and company money, so it all too often does not.