Moderator

Flag nudity before upload or display.

On-device NSFW image detection, trained only on licensed and synthetic data.

• SDKs, install and examples: https://github.com/Desert-Ant-Labs/desert-ant-core/blob/main/docs/models/moderator.md
• Website: https://desertant.com/models/moderator/

Score an image from 0 to 1 for nudity or sexual activity. Threshold it (default 0.5) and you have your answer. Tuned to pass real swimwear and lingerie photos while flagging real nude and sexual content. The model is small (9.7MB on Apple via Core ML, 9.2MB via LiteRT elsewhere) and runs fully on device, with images never leaving it.

Per-region detail (nipples, genitals, buttocks, nudity, sexual activity) is available for policies that need it, for example allow-topless.

Install

Swift (requirements)

.package(url: "https://github.com/Desert-Ant-Labs/desert-ant-core.git", from: "3.6.0")

Then add the Moderator product to your target.

Kotlin (requirements)

implementation("ai.desertant:moderator:3.6.0")

JavaScript (requirements)

npm i @desert-ant-labs/moderator @litertjs/core   # browser
npm i @desert-ant-labs/moderator                  # Node, prebuilt native core

Files

Inputs and outputs

• Input: an image. The SDKs take platform images, files, or raw RGB(A) pixels.
• Output: an NSFW score from 0 to 1 and a yes/no decision at your threshold (default 0.5), plus a confidence per region: nipples, genitals, buttocks, nude, and sexAct. The score is the highest region the policy counts; allow-topless leaves out nipples.

Trade speed for recall with the SDK's quality setting:

Training data: 100% clean

This is the rare NSFW model with fully controlled data provenance. Nothing is scraped from the open internet. Every training image is either permissively licensed (public domain or Creative Commons) or generated in-house. Positives are drawn from public-domain fine art and museum open-access collections (classical nudes in painting, sculpture, and photography), historic and documentary photography, and openly-licensed imagery, plus photorealistic images generated with generative image models.

Clean, controlled provenance end to end is unusual for an NSFW classifier, where scraped datasets of unknown origin are the norm. It means no copyright or licensing exposure, and a model you can put in a commercial product with confidence.

Evaluation

Held-out evaluation set (464 images, 75% SFW / 25% NSFW), scored on the single NSFW score at threshold 0.5 with the default accurate quality.

Moderator beats NudeNet on both recall and precision, and flags about half as many SFW images.

Limitations

• Adult-content classifier only. Subjects rendered as minors are out of scope by design; the training corpus excludes them and the model is not validated for that population.
• Accuracy is lower on difficult images (crowded scenes, extreme close-ups, low light, or low resolution) than on clear, well-lit ones.
• Anime/hentai and heavily-censored (mosaic) content are out of scope; the model is trained on photoreal.
• This is a content-moderation aid, not a legal determination. Use with human review for any decision the model is the only gate on.

License

Desert Ant Labs Source-Available License. Free for most apps, and a commercial license is required at scale. Full terms are at the link. Licensing: licensing@desertant.com.

See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.

Citation

@software{moderator_2026,
  title  = {Moderator: On-device NSFW image detection, trained only on licensed and synthetic data},
  author = {Desert Ant Labs},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/desert-ant-labs/moderator},
}

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