Rather this than more human time wasted on targeting ads

The obvious application for this is targeted ads (the porn industry is a mass of crosslinked affiliate marketing)

Actually, I think that's unfair. I saw how little comments there were and thought, everyone is keeping quiet. Why? The context? Why should the context really matter, when it's the technology that is intriguing?

If you take the time to read about the project it might actually have some really good applications like parenting tools

The classes are: > blowjob_handjob > cunnilingus > other > sex_back > sex_front > titfuck

I don't think this particular classifier would be very useful in a parenting tool - or perhaps my style of parenting is old-fashioned

This program can also be viewed as a general framework for classifying video with a Caffe model, using batching and threading in C++. By replacing the weights, model definition, and mean file it can immediately be used to edit videos with other classes without recompiling

Pornography has to be one of the most ideal contexts for developing our understanding of neural networks and deep learning. I think this was and is a great idea, not just in that context, but in the anthropological one as well. If one is going to program a thinking algorithm, it should think like a human, and pornography is ideal for that. The approach is original and innovative.

The fact that this is apparently more nuanced than Yahoo's NSFW model (and open source at that) means it would certainly have applications in porn censorship, if that's your stance on the issue.

Censorship is a concern quite outside of classification, though.

While they are obviously different, automatic censorship would require automatic classification.

To play devil's advocate, there may be applications of this that are not prurient.

But prurient is the whole point!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaHDBL7dVgs

The sad part is that you think it is ok to shame people and that you somehow hold the moral high ground to make such judgement

At the risk of introducing unbounded recursion, it seems like you're trying to shame the GP.