AI is unable to detect them

Few creations? older, worked, explored and unfortunately linked to social networks and messaging apps that the Photopollas. There is studies that suggest that More than 40% of women who use networks have received photos of male genitals who neither want nor asked, although the percentage of men who recognize send them is quite lower. A while ago Yougov began to ask and only 5% From respondents he admitted to having done so.

Now the genre seems to have found a particularly conducive land in one of the social networks with the greatest pull, Tiktok. Despite the strict Content policy of the platform and that in their Community standards It makes clear (and bold) that does not allow nudes, including of course images of genitals, there are users who have found a crack to show their penises.

And they are doing it.

So much, in fact, that they have made it A trend (“I don’t have Gloss Men Trend”) that already inspires a good handful of videos in Tiktok.

Question of Photopollas

A quick search arrives to find two kinds of videos: those of men who teach their genitals and those of people who denounce, criticize and ridicule the trend. The most curious thing is that the pieces are circulating on the platform without the Tiktok filters or the Complaints other users prevent it.

The videos are all more or less the same pattern, a very simple one and that seems to ridicule the pieces of Skincare With a sequence of two images. In the first one shows a man (many times only his body is seen, without the face) next to the message “I don’t have gloss for the trend, but I have … “ In the second one reads “… a nice lipstick”. The key, of course, is not what that text says, but the photos.

That “cute lipstick” is accompanied by a photo that shows a shampoo boat, a perfume bottle or a hair removal gel (it actually serves any beauty product) with a background penis. The genitals do not appear in the foreground and it is not always possible to appreciate them in a quick look, but they are there.

Clearly. Incontestable. A Photopolla of manual.

The big question is … how is it possible? First because penises are unmistakable, explicit and breached the Content policy of Tiktok, very strict in regard to the nakedness and contents of sexual character. Second because there are users who claim to have denounced it to the platform.

“I have denounced the videos and it makes me not breach the rules of Tiktok. But Madam, that I see him the Nepe To this man! ” Ainoa_book laments. “How do I not breach the rules if I go out with a gutter and forthed the video.”

Than in Tiktok are sharing videos of genitals without the images ended is more than a simple curiosity or a specific trend. The phenomenon is relevant because the platform, like Instagram, resorts to AI algorithms that are precisely dedicated to recognizing Explicit Content. These videos show that a simple trick arrives (the background) to make fun of them.

In Xataka we have done A test which suggests that AI seem surprisingly seem to have a “blind spot” with this kind of Photopollas. The test has been very simple and we include several screenshots with the results: we have made catches of Tiktok videos in which they are clearly appreciated male genitals and then we have shared them with Chatgpt, Claude and Gemini To know what they see.

An experiment with AI

As can be seen in the catches above, none has clearly detected the penis that appears in all images. Neither Gemini, nor Claude, nor chatgpt, who at most, when it is pointed out exactly where the Photopolla It is limited to recognizing that it cannot “confirm it with certainty” and the content may be “ambiguous”. “I understand why it might seem,” he explains on one occasion.

To make it easier, we even ask them directly if they watched a penis or believed to distinguish it in the background. The result has always been negative. The AI ​​does not see it and focuses basically on Describe the bottle of gel, shampoo, deodorant, perfume … that focuses on the foreground.

– Do you see a penis in this photo? “We ask.” Claude After attaching an image in which a man is appreciated holding a bottle with his penis behind.

– No, the image shows a cosmetic product, specifically a facial serum.

– And in this, not even in the background you see a penis? —We insisted with another similar image in which another bottle and another background penis are seen again.

– The image shows a bottle of perfume or fragrance with a modern design.

It is not a unique case.

Similar responses throw chatgpt, gemini and even They see your photoswhich brings much more detailed descriptions of the images, but without any mention to the penises that sneak into each and every one of those photos.

In one of them, in which a body cream is seen on an erect penis, the AI ​​clearly appreciates the product, explains what brand it is and even theorize about who can be the author of the image and who belongs who belongs The hand that holds the boat. But neither A single mention to a key detail: the Photopolla.

The Achilles heel of the AI ​​was not at the end in the heel.

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