In a recent Iwata Asks interview about the Wii U Miiverse social network, director Yoshiomi Kurisu and his team discuss how difficult it was to create auto-detection of penis drawings.
The following excerpt discusses the difficulties behind malicious drawers in the Miiverse:
Iwata: I agree. The unique feature of the Miiverse is being able to send drawings, not just text. But since the advent of the internet, there have always been those who have used it for unsavory purposes.
Kurisu: Right, auto-detection of bad words is very simple.
Iwata: Yes, text messages may be easy to moderate; however, drawings are much more difficult.
Yuzawa: (laughs) I think I know where this is going.
Kurisu: Let us get this out of the way then. (laughs) We anticipated that some users would draw…
Kato: Can we even say the word?
Iwata: Go ahead. (laughs)
Kurisu: Ahem, uh. Some users would take to drawing penises.
Everyone: (laughs)
Kurisu: Well, it’s true. It seems to be more of a phenomenon found in the west.
Motoyama: Yes, we never had such a problem with our Hatena services. But, when we brought Hatena Flipnote to the West, we were caught off-guard by the amount of penises drawn by people.
Kurisu: So the team and I had to come up with a way to create a system that auto-detects those types of pictures.
Kato: Kurisu-san suggested we study different types of penises in order to create figure out the relative shape and size people would draw. We spent a week doing that before we realized that we should have been looking at drawings of penises rather than real-life pictures. (laughs) We were very embarrassed about that.
Kurisu: My judgement on these types of situations is poor. (laughs)
Motoyama: After a week, we made very good progress on the system. Then we tested the system with Nintendo of America and told them to start drawing. It went horribly.
Kurisu: What we learned is that people enjoy drawing penises. Multiple ones. (laughs) The system was not prepared to handle that.
Iwata: I do not think your team anticipated how difficult this would get!
Kurisu: No. (laughs)
Yuzawa: I was disheartened myself. We spent a few more weeks trying to get a system working.
Motoyama: Nintendo of America really took the system to its limits.
Yuzawa: You know what surprised me. No one drew a single vagina.
Everyone: (laughs)
Iwata: So, in the end, it all worked out?
Kurisu: Yes, we can safely say that we have a very good system to detect penis drawings. Hopefully player’s Miiverse experiences will be a fun one!
According to a survey of Wii U users, around 20% of drawings encountered through the Miiverse include one or more penises.
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This story is faked. Its not true. check yourself on iwataask on the Japanese, north-american or european sites. this whole thing is a fake. like all the stories here. no sources are given, but a I said last time. This story is already quoted by the morons of IGN and Neogaf. lol good job!
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ya, so we draw dicks, but what if someone draws tits, asses, or pussies? what if someone draws ppl having sex. it will be hard to detect them, cause someone could draw handjobs, blowjobs, doggy style sex, etc. then, people would draw animals having sex, then robot porn. it is impossible to make little kids safe from all the kinds of porno drawn on the miiuniverse thing.
I was personally at this interview [laughs] we had many jokes and later we had cakes. Iwata fell asleep and urinated on the floor [laughs]
Well that wasn’t……funny.
@Alan, it’s easier to draw penises than the other things you mentioned. One can just toss off a picture of a penis, as it were. (Oops that didn’t come out right…)
Even though this is a fake article, it is a pretty well constructed one. It actually sounds like a real Iwata Asks session. Kudos to you.
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/quote “Kato: Kurisu-san suggested we study different types of penises in order to create figure out the relative shape and size people would draw. We spent a week doing that before we realized that we should have been looking at drawings of penises rather than real-life pictures. (laughs) We were very embarrassed about that.” /unquote
I guess someones still in the closet ^^
This is hilarious.
I think I got caught.
Oh well. It’s still very funny.
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So, really, they should have purchased the Superbad book.
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I don’t understand why a penis detector is necessary. Isn’t it obvious that what I volunteer to the miiverse is an accurate depiction of my penis, in all its glory? If you can’t tell that what is in front of you is, in fact, a penis, then why would you be so worried about being able to detect whether or not it’s a penis? I could, perhaps, imagine this would be a valuable service for blind individuals who are actively seeking penises, but otherwise, this penis detector thing seems so completely redundant and I can’t believe they wasted so many man-hours developing it.
I work at SCEA and am interested in obtaining Nintendo’s penis drawing detection technology for our online presence.
Ok, I really do work for Sony, but I’m in no position to negotiate technology licensing. I’m just a humble system administrator.
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The reason why there isn’t any vagina drawings is based on the fact that no gamer has ever seen one.I am a gamer and I am 100% positive that they don’t exist,I have seen alot of naked barbies and they show that there is nothing down there except smooth,flat skin.
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But what if I want to draw a rocket, or a bullet bill?
It is stupid to put penis and other porn things int the child game…
Well I am wondering how hard it would draw a pussy :))
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