Appleā€™s been moderating search terms for GIFs on iMessage after porn showed up
Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 6:10PM
Nicole Batac in Apple, Apple iMessage, Mobile, News, app news, iMessage, iOS 10, iPad apps, iphone

Apple uses Bing to power its new GIF search on iOS 10 and trouble showed up in the most unusual way. Searching for even a supposedly harmless term like “huge” uncovered things like someone’s private parts or someone engaging in sexual acts. Apple has since started to moderate the search terms for both words with obvious sexual connotations but this will be a tricky line to tread as even seemingly harmless words like “bounce” show up images of women’s breasts.

Source: Engadget + Gizmodo

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