Key takeaway: Pure's AI moderator has up to 15% false positive rate. About a fifth of all bans are just computer vision errors.
"I uploaded a gym selfie and got banned." We hear this every day. And no, you are not crazy. The bot really does ban people for normal photos.
How do they scan photos?
Every photo gets run through a neural network. What makes it trigger:
- Bare skin. The bot often cannot tell a beach from pornography.
- Pixels and blur. Slightly blurry photo — you get banned as a fake.
- Crowd. Two faces in frame = algorithm error = ban.
- Watermarks or text on a shirt. Treated as spam or advertising.
Why is the neural network so dumb?
It is not dumb, it is playing it safe. Pure tuned the algorithm to ban 10 normal guys with open torsos rather than let one real exhibitionist through. You just got caught in the carpet bombing.
If you got taken down for a photo — read what to do in the first minutes so you do not make it worse. Or just reach out to us directly — we will pull you out.
