Twitter apparently has a 'dick pic bot' that scours the platform for posts with not-safe-for-work content, according to Elon Musk
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- Billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday mentioned a "dick pic bot" that flags nudity on Twitter.
- Musk said the bot was scanning for NSFW content and tends to flag male genitals more.
- It's not immediately clear if Twitter actually uses such a bot, since Musk likes to joke.
Twitter runs a "dick pic bot" that scans the platform for not-safe-for-work posts, according to a tweet by the social media company's owner, Elon Musk.
The billionaire mentioned the apparent tool in a Sunday evening tweet when the account @libsoftiktok asked if the platform was quietly limiting their posts.
"Your account was labeled as NSFW by our dick pic bot on 6/26, because you posted media with nudity from Pride parades," Musk replied. "Corrective action is to label the individual posts as NSFW, rather than the whole account. Should be fixed now."
—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 9, 2023
Musk later added that the bot sometimes mistakes images of rockets as phalluses. "Which is crazy of course," he wrote.
According to the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, the detector flags more posts with male genitals than those including female genitals.
The bot's full capabilities and scope are not immediately clear. Nor is it clear if the detector truly exists, given Musk's penchant for cracking jokes on Twitter.
The billionaire also floated the nickname "hotdog detector" for the detection tool.
Twitter bans non-consensual nudity, including images that use deepfake technology to superimpose a person's face onto a nude body. However, it does not ban "pornography and other forms of consensually produced adult content," as long as the "media is marked as sensitive," the platform's policy FAQ states.
"If you don't mark your media as sensitive, we may do so manually if your content is reported for review," the FAQ also says.
Accounts that violate Twitter's nudity policies will be "immediately and permanently" suspended, the platform added.
Musk and Twitter did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment sent outside regular business hours.