Twitter ‘flags rockets as intimate content’ due to AI use for image recognition

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Twitter is reportedly confusing photos of rockets for “intimate” content due to the platform’s increased use of machine learning tools for image recognition. The microblogging platform flagged Spaceflight Now’s tweet as “violating our rules against posting or sharing privately produced/distributed intimate media of someone without their express consent.” “Our account has been locked by Twitter for violating unspecified rules while covering a launch,” Spaceflight Now editor Stephen Clark tweeted. The suspended accounts seem to have been caught by Twitter’s automated content moderation system the use of which predates Mr Musk’s takeover of the company. BBC reported in November last year that an Oxfordshire astronomer’s account was suspended for three months after sharing a video of a meteor that the platform’s automated moderation tool flagged as “intimate content”.