> Captivity: The monkey is likely being kept in captivity, as evidenced by the harness and the lack of natural surroundings.
> Animal Abuse: The image raises concerns about animal welfare. The monkey's tethering and the apparent lack of suitable living conditions could indicate potential abuse.
> Exotic Pet Trade: The monkey might be part of the illegal exotic pet trade. Many countries have strict regulations against keeping wild animals as pets, especially primates.
The article claims that it means the AI detected the abuse perfectly, but I don't think it did. It points out things that could be signs of abuse (I'm guessing the prompt primed Gemini to look for them), but signs of abuse alone wouldn't be enough to delete a video, especially if the clip was part of, say, a documentary.
The AI missed two things: that the monkey's leash wasn't just a restraint but a form of deliberate torture, and that the purpose of the video is to make a display of the abuse (as opposed to the abuse being an incidental result of bad living conditions). Those are the things you'd really want to flag for deletion, and I think a current tech AI is unlikely to find them without some deliberate prompt engineering.
I do think we're moving towards platforms taking more and more responsibility for this kind of shit, and they should. But it's naive to assume there's some product manager at google somewhere who is aware of the millions of animal abuse videos on the platform and went "oh no we should preserve them, they bring in ad revenue". That shit is niche.
