i have so many questions

but mostly just stop using zoom for sex parties or at all, ok https://twitter.com/p01arst0rm/status/1251150615314481153

some of the questions

- why do they care
- what is this algorithm
- will it detect if one person is nude or does everyone have to be nude
- what if it's just skin-coloured clothing
- is it using sound
- when they detect a sex party, does an alarm go off at zoom hq
- why

- what if you just like being naked and the other person is cool with it and there's a mutual understanding that it's not sexual
- what if you just have a lot of titty and a bad camera angle
- is this dick detection because a dick-firewall for unsolicited dick pics would be rad

- did someone at zoom find out there was a sex party that they weren't invited to and this is just their revenge?
- how was this pitched as a feature by project managers to engineers?
- are there meeting notes from when they discussed how to detect sex parties PLEASE SHARE

- what was the reference data they used for machine learning
- are sex parties manually verified, or do they trust the AI

lmao never trust AI you fools

i am cracking a lot of jokes here, but really i hope this is a wakeup call to all of you that none of your shit is private, they are running algorithms against your content, and zoom is fucking creepy. it is a bad company run by bad people. stop saying they aren't that bad.

y'all would be in arms if facebook or twitter was monitoring your private messages for sexual content, so come the fuck on.

and i am looking at all of you verified motherfuckers in tech talking about how zoom is Fine Actually because it is *not* fine and it's your fucking responsibility to not mislead the public into thinking it's not a big deal.

so, @ericsyuan, how are you going to spin this one?

i'm a fairly understanding person when it comes to the art of fucking up. and i think it's sloppy, but one privacy fuckup i can understand and forgive. but zoom just keeps making mistakes, the public calls them out on it, and then they half-ass an apology. it's not enough.

what have they done that we don't know about?

i have valorant and zoom installed on the same PC. guess which one makes me more nervous?

i trust tencent more than i trust zoom.