Posted by DamonHD 4/15/2025
This is what you actually have to do with websites, e.g. when you want some content blurred when it's behind a paywall. If you leave the original text intact, people can just remove the CSS blur in dev tools.
Some implementations get this slightly wrong, and leave the placeholder content visible to accessibility tools, which sometimes produces hilarious and confusing results if you rely on those.
Not to mention deeply and disturbingly unethical
> Not to mention deeply and disturbingly unethical
Is it really deeply disturbingly unethical? Just FYI, it isn't their identities that are censored, but their genitals are pixelated due to Japanese laws.
I'd bet it could use information from the pixels around it and the blurred out ones as well. It's not hard to imagine such an approach.
If it is against the wishes of the people in the video, yes, yes it is.
E: Never thought I'd see the day I'm downvoted for saying un-blurring porn of people who made porn under the assumption that it would be blurred (and may not have made that same decision without that context) is unethical, on HN of all places, but times are strange I guess.
The reason it's "against the wishes" of folks in a JAV video is because of the legal risk it opens them up to from the Japanese government - not because the actors/actresses "don't consent to viewers seeing their uncensored body".
Note that I am NOT talking about distribution of non consensual deepfakes. Obviously that's abhorrent.
How can you possibly know this? They made the career decision while knowing what the law was. They may not have made that decision if the law was different.
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Or having the pixelated parts be a particular pattern, and then releasing an XOR video to get the original footage..
It's not perfect, by any means, but you can get intelligible speech from a pretty terrible recording at least. Adobe has their AI assist tool too, it works pretty well though I've found it can't isolate a speaker when there are a lot of other people talking nearby.
Take that adobe.