The Oversight Board, Meta’s semi-independent policy council, it turning its attention to how the company’s social platforms are handling explicit, AI-generated images.
Tuesday, it announced investigations into two separate cases over how Instagram in India and Facebook in the U.S. handled AI-generated images of public figures after Meta’s systems fell short on detecting and responding to the explicit content.
In other words, after two reports, the explicit AI-generated image remained on Instagram.
The second case relates to Facebook, where a user posted an explicit, AI-generated image that resembled a U.S. public figure in a Group focusing on AI creations.
Meta’s response and the next stepsIn response to the Oversight Board’s cases, Meta said it took down both pieces of content.
Now, when you search terms like “taylor swift ai” or “taylor swift deepfake” on X, you’ll find thousands of posts from fans trying to bury the AI-generated content.
This abuse has even seeped into schools, where underage girls have been targeted by their classmates with explicit, nonconsensual deepfakes.
So, for some Taylor Swift fans, this isn’t just a matter of protecting the star.
taylor swift fans are genuinely amazing.
they literally accomplish stuff our legal system can't — soup (@jasminericegirl) January 25, 2024Congress is making some legislative headway to criminalize nonconsensual deepfakes.
Now, when you search terms like “taylor swift ai” or “taylor swift deepfake” on X, you’ll find thousands of posts from fans trying to bury the AI-generated content.
This abuse has even seeped into schools, where underage girls have been targeted by their classmates with explicit, nonconsensual deepfakes.
So, for some Taylor Swift fans, this isn’t just a matter of protecting the star.
taylor swift fans are genuinely amazing.
they literally accomplish stuff our legal system can't — soup (@jasminericegirl) January 25, 2024Congress is making some legislative headway to criminalize nonconsensual deepfakes.
Google has announced that it will enable its SafeSearch filtering technology by default for all users in the coming months. SafeSearch filters out explicit imagery and is designed to help…
