so I've been recently seeing my friends who has k-pop stars as their profile picture getting reported or even banned for the said profile picture showing their faces, even though it's a k-pop star or singer. I'm wondering if scratch team could sort this out? I don't want anyone to get false banned for having a k-pop star as their profile picture. thank you!

so true !!! ST should definitely see this

The Scratch Team can't tell the difference between a picture of a K-pop singer's face, and a picture of your face. That's why they take down profile pictures of famous K-pop singers.

If you want to clarify to the Scratch Team that that's not your face and it's a K-pop singer's face, you'll have to use Contact Us: https://scratch.mit.edu/contact-us/

preppyglossy wrote:

i think if possible you could add some code to verify if the profile picture is a kpop idol/singer then it would solve the problem

I have 2 questions regarding this:

1) What about other celebrities / other non-kpop singers? RESOLVED: Every single celebrity will have the same treatment
2) How would that even be possible? AFAIK Tineye, which is the only reverse image search I'm familiar with and have used before, costs at the very least $200 for 5,000 searches. keeping in mind that it costs $0.04 USD per search. And that's just the Starters plan!

preppyglossy wrote:

DifferentDance8 wrote:

preppyglossy wrote:

i think if possible you could add some code to verify if the profile picture is a kpop idol/singer then it would solve the problem

I have 2 questions regarding this:

1) What about other celebrities / other non-kpop singers?
2) How would that even be possible? AFAIK Tineye, which is the only reverse image search I'm familiar with and have used before, costs at the very least $200 for 5,000 searches. keeping in mind that it costs $0.04 USD per search. And that's just the Starters plan!

abt question 1 i i meant all non-kpop singers, celebrities, etc

oh. yeah, fair enough.

preppyglossy wrote:

i think if possible you could add some code to verify if the profile picture is a kpop idol/singer then it would solve the problem

that would be pretty much impossible

You guys CAN do cartoon like k-pop idols that are not really realistic but they do look cute.
https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/554243/?page=1#post-5740188

preppyglossy wrote:

donotforgetmycode wrote:

preppyglossy wrote:

i think if possible you could add some code to verify if the profile picture is a kpop idol/singer then it would solve the problem

that would be pretty much impossible

yes I am aware of that now

I don't think that the ST is ready (if ever) to adopt neural networking