GitHub - Haidra-Org/lemmy-safety: A script that goes through a lemmy pict-rs object storage and tries to prevent illegal or unethical content
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I noticed a bit of panic around here lately and as I have had to continuously fight against pedos for the past year, I have developed tools to help me detect and prevent this content.

As luck would have it, we recently published one of our anti-csam checker tool as a python library that anyone can use. So I thought I could use this to help lemmy admins feel a bit more safe.

The tool can either go through all your images via your object storage and delete all CSAM, or it canrun continuously and scan and delete all new images as well. Suggested option is to run it using --all once, and then run it as a daemon and leave it running.

Better options would be to be able to retrieve exact images uploaded via lemmy/pict-rs api but we’re not there quite yet.

Let me know if you have any issue or improvements.

EDIT: Just to clarify, you should run this on your desktop PC with a GPU, not on your lemmy server!

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    58·
    1 year ago

    Note that the script I posted is not transmitting the images to the AI Horde.

    Also keep in mind this tool is fully automated and catches a lot of false positives (due to the nature of the scan, it couldn’t be otherwise). So one could argue it’s a generic filtering operation, not an explicit knowledge of CSAM hosting. But IANAL of course.

    This is unlike cloudflare or other services which compare with known CSAM.

    EDIT: That is to mean, if you use this tool to forward these images to the govt, they are going to come after you for spamming them with garbage

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        18·
        1 year ago

        One can easily hook this script to forward to whoever is needed, but I think they might be a bit annoyed after you send them a couple hundred thousand false positives without any csam.

          • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
            15·
            1 year ago

            Honestly, I thinking you’re grossly overstating the legal danger a random small lemmy sysadmin is going to get into for running an automated tool like this.

            In any case, you’ve made your point, people can now make their own decisions on whether it’s better to pretend nothing is wrong on their instance, or if they want at least this sort of blanket cleanup. Far be it from me to tell anyone what to do.

            I don’t even know why you think I was recommending for your system to forward the reports to the authorities

            You may not have meant it, but you strongly implied something of the sort. But since this is not what you’re suggesting I’m curious to hear what your optimal approach to those problem would be here.