UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)

instagraham 23 points 25 comments September 08, 2026
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ggm

Always two sides to classification. Finding and Banning. It's tempting to ask if this is one, the other or both by the same people.

DC-3

Coincidentally I was trying this out yesterday as a potential option for automated porn filtering for the imageboard that I administrate. It is very lightweight which is good but the performance is not great. Some weird false positives and it does a bad job with flat chested women which is very concerning to me because it leads me to think it won’t be effective against CSAM.

londons_explore

How many people download classifiers? The number of downloads really doesn't seem like a good way to measure the quality of a bit of work. One download could be deployed on a bit website and classify billions of users images.

londons_explore

Smells like someone is botting the download numbers to get a press release....

TacticalCoder

> UAE AI model tops 50 million monthly downloads So in a bit more than a year, 10% of the planet has downloaded a NSFW classifier? I mean: in the end there are only 8 billion people on earth, which projects do, all added up, need to download one NSFW classifier 600 million times a year? Something something something makes me think there are inefficiencies at play here.

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