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To think Google should give a warning for graphic images?

26 replies

eureakah · 09/08/2017 21:54

Let me begin by strongly advising you NOT to try and find these images as they are extremely graphic and I wish I was given some warning. I was looking through some images of O.J Simpson and came across one of his wife. It was just a photo of her smiling so I clicked on the image and in related images was horrified to be faced with some extremely graphic photos. Surely Google should have gave me a warning or at least ask me to prove I was over 18 before putting these images on my screen. I clicked on a perfectly innocent picture and was faced with something I never wanted to see. I was disgusted that google had these images so readily available. God forbid if a child had came across them accidentally like I did! I'm sure there are millions of photos of a similar nature just ready to pop up on screen when someone is innocently searching for something else. There really should be some restrictions!

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Edsheeranalbumparty · 09/08/2017 21:55

You can put 'safe search' on your Google in the settings can't you?

Fresh8008 · 09/08/2017 21:57

can't really say, can you add link? tried googling 'O.J Simpson wife', but all looks ok.

CockacidalManiac · 09/08/2017 21:58

You need to enable 'safe search, through settings.

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eureakah · 09/08/2017 22:01

Ok thanks I didn't know about safe search I will do it now ! Fresh it was a related image I clicked on and it all went downhill from then on.

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scaevola · 09/08/2017 22:02

What restrictions do you want?

And how do you 'tell' a machine how to interpret images and rank their acceptability?

Edsheeranalbumparty · 09/08/2017 22:03

And how do you 'tell' a machine how to interpret images and rank their acceptability?

That is what the safe search does isn't it? Confused

SaucyJack · 09/08/2017 22:04

What was it you were innocently searching for when you clicked on the picture of a murder victim?

bingobunny · 09/08/2017 22:05

safe search even brings up awful images. the internet is just that though open to all not much moderation but would you want it more moderated? i worry about the dark web and what's on that

CockacidalManiac · 09/08/2017 22:08

I have moderate search on, yet I never see awful images. It depends what you search for, I suppose.

SparklingBollox · 09/08/2017 22:08

I have seen them, just googled her name after I heard he was being released because although I remember the trial, I couldn't remember what she looked like. They really are quite horrific, if I was a family member I would be really hurt to know they were online.

SomeOtherFuckers · 09/08/2017 22:11

Sexual or violently graphic?

SomeOtherFuckers · 09/08/2017 22:12

I agree with safe guarding both but the violently graphic ones are particularly bad for me because I'm a fainter and I HATE THEM

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eureakah · 09/08/2017 22:13

Sparkling sorry you have seen them also. You are right, if that was a friend or relative of mine on the internet for all to gawp at I would be sickened. Her poor, poor children could come across that image so easily!

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myknickersknackersknockers · 09/08/2017 22:13

I tried googling oh simpsons wife and I didn't get any awful pictures. I don't have safe search on so unsure what the difference is.

SparklingBollox · 09/08/2017 22:14

Crime scene photos fucker, or at least claiming to be.

SparklingBollox · 09/08/2017 22:17

I typed her name in to goodie image search, I haven't got any safe settings on my iPad, but obviously I cleared my history after on the off chance my dc used my iPad and saw it.
It's horrible to think her children could have.

SparklingBollox · 09/08/2017 22:18

Google image.

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eureakah · 09/08/2017 22:20

I did have to clear my history too as I didn't want to accidentally bring the image up again or my dc seeing it. I hope it is hoax images but it's sick whoever posted them

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bingobunny · 09/08/2017 22:24

alot of stuff is fake

Henrythehoover · 09/08/2017 22:24

I've found that I was once looking at pictures of motorbike helmets looking for a new one and a picture of a man who had crashed with no helmet came up. It stuck with me for ages.

talonofthehawk · 09/08/2017 22:25

Please try to get a grip.

SparklingBollox · 09/08/2017 22:26

I can remember watching funny cats on YouTube many years ago and a video popped up of a woman killing a kitten. Sad
It's bad enough that people do things like that, but to brag about it by putting it online is just beyond the realms of fucked up and evil.

SparklingBollox · 09/08/2017 22:27

Oh knob off hawk.

Spudlet · 09/08/2017 22:34

I remember searching for something totally unrelated at work, and coming up with an image of someone being decapitated. I nearly cried, it was horrible and totally unexpected. No idea if it was real or fake, but I was genuinely shocked.

We couldn't have safe search on, as it blocked images that were part of our work (in animal welfare).

scaevola · 10/08/2017 09:41

"That is what the safe search does isn't it?"

Only up to a point.

It does not return results from pages it has been told not to. It can still return highly inappropriate stuff if it doesn't 'know' not to send those results, because machines don't 'see' as humans do and cannot tell the difference between an inocuous first aid manual and a guide to self harm.

So to take just one example, because of complaints, some of the images returned on the front page of searches for the names of the men beheaded by Da'esh, have been blacklisted. But graphic pictures keep popping in to the search results because they are on many sites and the machine only knows about the ones it has received instructions about.

Safe search is useful to reduce somewhat the number of inappropriate hits, but it's not necessarily going to make any search actually safe.

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