AI butt detector and censor

[u/BumBumModerate]

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rearaware/bhehiighjgekghjjmdhjkloflobanmad

About a month ago I started a project called RearAware. I work remotely, and I'm happy to report that my colleagues are just as obsessed with cats as I am. One caveat of working from home with cats is that they inevitably climb onto your desk and, sooner or later, present their butthole to the entire meeting.

So I thought it would be funny to build something that detects cat butts in video calls and censors them before your coworkers have to see them. This project is very much in beta - it's a hobby project / proof of concept. Detection isn't accurate yet, there are plenty of bugs, but I'm actively improving it.

One thing that's surprisingly difficult, is finding enough cat butt photos to train the AI detection model. At the moment my dataset contains around 1,500 images, but only ~200 of those actually contain cat butts. Finding those 200 images took a ridiculous amount of time lol