Tumblr’s anti-porn algorithm is flagging basically everything as NSFW

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, The Daily Dot:

Tumblr and Twitter are already full of screencaps showing random posts mislabeled as explicit material. In some cases, you can kind of see how the mistake happened (for instance, art with partial but non-sexual nudity, or images that a bot might mistake for a human body), but there’s also a ton of content that appears to have been flagged at random.

Some are G-rated or abstract art, which suggests an immediate problem for the many illustrators who use Tumblr as a portfolio site. Others are everyday photos like this person’s gallery of dinosaur pics.

Just scroll through the article, look at all the examples of innocuous posts labeled NSFW.

Hard to see this as anything other than a self-made disaster for Tumblr. Not too late to reverse course.