Description

This project matches Openverse images against a list of sensitive terms. All sensitive single image results on the frontend are blurred and viewing them is opt-in for all users.

Development work is ongoing and tracked in a milestone: https://github.com/WordPress/openverse/milestone/12

Documents

• Trust and Safety in the Openverse: Preliminary User Stories and Exploration - A general doc relevant to all content safety projects
• Project Proposal
• Implementation Plans (link to requested plans)
  • Implementation Plan: Managing A Sensitive Terms List #911
    • This wasn't noted as a requested IP in the project proposal as it was already being worked on by Zack, but it is part of this project.
  • Implementation Plan: API sensitive terms filtering and designation #937
    • Milestone here
  • Implementation Plan: Blurring sensitive results #938
• Design Proposal

Issues

• Add non-production feature flag for marking half of results as sensitive #854
• Setup sensitive terms list for the blurring project #1169
• API Milestone: https://github.com/WordPress/openverse/milestone/5
• Frontend Milestone: https://github.com/WordPress/openverse/milestone/12

Prior Art

• Create pre-filtered secondary indexes and add ability to automatically filter sensitive terms at query time openverse-api#1108 | A potential full-fledged implementation for the API
• [Feature] Use metadata keywords to help detect if something is NSFW (original #482) #750
• Consider hiding Flickr behind the 'mature' flag #721