Google’s Father Controversial ‘Pedophilia’ Accusation

While there are great efforts around the world to prevent children from being sexually abused, an application implemented by Apple last year received a lot of backlash. Apple’s new feature Automatically scans new photos added to iCloud and when he found evidence of child abuse he would report it to a human manager. If the finding of child abuse was confirmed in the investigation, the person’s account was also banned.

While the feature in question received a lot of backlash and was withdrawn by Apple, today an interesting news came from Google. According to the news shared by The New York Times, Google released a father’s account in February 2021. banned for content that points to child abuse. However, the incident revealed the inadequacy of artificial intelligence in this regard.

The father photographed his genital area for the treatment of his sick child and sent it to the doctor:

In the incident that occurred during the period when the coronavirus was dominant and hospitals were closed, the father He saw a discharge in his genital area. The father, who applied to the doctor, at the request of his doctor, He photographed his genital area and sent it to the doctor. Based on this image, the doctor gave antibiotics against the infection that occurred in the girl.

But two days after the image was taken, the father named Mark received a notification from Google. In this notice, your account’s ‘harmful content’ and ‘Serious violation of Google policies and may be illegalThere was information that it was banned because of ”. This way, Mark lost access to his email, contacts, photos, and phone number as he used Google’s Fi mobile service.

Google turned down your father’s complaint:

Mark then appealed against Google’s decision, but Google turned down your father’s request. In addition to all these, the father was complained to the law enforcement officers in the region where he lived, upon the detection of the said image. The San Francisco Police Department issued a denunciation of the father in December 2021 on this complaint. launched an investigation.

Fortunately, the investigation was decided in favor of the father and the authorities said that the incident was “that it does not meet the crime elements and that a crime does not occur‘ he concluded. In a statement to The Verge, Google continued to defend the artificial intelligence system and did not include clear statements about the event.

The company stated that they followed US law to detect CSAM. However, a team of child safety experts has reviewed the accuracy of the flagged content and to help users identify situations in which they may seek medical advice shared that they consulted with pediatricians.

Google published its artificial intelligence developed to prevent child abuse in 2018. Company in 2021 621 thousand 583 CSAM reported incidentsas a result of which Mark included It had warned authorities about 4,260 potential people.