Meta Platforms\u2019 META.O Oversight Board is reviewing the company\u2019s handling of two sexually explicit AI-generated images of female celebrities that circulated on its Facebook and Instagram services, the board said on Tuesday.
\nThe board, which is funded by the social media giant but operates independently from it, will use the two examples to assess the overall effectiveness of Meta\u2019s policies and enforcement practices around pornographic fakes created using artificial intelligence, it said in a blog post.
\nIt provided descriptions of the images in question but did not name the famous women depicted in them in order to \u201cprevent further harm,\u201d a board spokesperson said.
\nAdvances in AI technology have made fabricated images, audio clips and videos virtually indistinguishable from real human-created content, resulting in a spate of sexual fakes proliferating online, mostly depicting women and girls.
\nIn an especially high-profile case earlier this year, Elon Musk-owned social media platform X briefly blocked users from searching for all images of U.S. pop star Taylor Swift after struggling to control the spread of fake explicit images of her.
\nSome industry executives have called for legislation to criminalize the creation of harmful \u201cdeep fakes\u201d and require that tech companies prevent such uses of their products.
\nAccording to the Oversight Board\u2019s descriptions of its cases, one involves an AI-generated image of a nude woman resembling a public figure from India, posted by an account on Instagram that only shares AI-generated images of Indian women.
\nThe other image, the board said, appeared in a Facebook group for sharing AI creations and featured an AI-generated depiction of a nude woman resembling \u201can American public figure\u201d with a man groping her breast.
\nMeta removed the image depicting the American woman for violating its bullying and harassment policy, which bars \u201cderogatory sexualized photoshops or drawings,\u201d but initially left up the one featuring the Indian woman and only reversed course after the board selected it for review.
\nIn a separate post, Meta acknowledged the cases and pledged to implement the board\u2019s decisions.
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Meta Platforms’ Oversight Board is reviewing the company’s handling of sexually explicit AI-generated images of female celebrities on Facebook and Instagram. The board aims to evaluate Meta’s policies and enforcement practices around pornographic fakes created using artificial intelligence. The images were not named to prevent further harm, as advances in AI technology have made fake content indistinguishable from real content, leading to an increase in sexual fakes online. Elon Musk’s social media platform also faced challenges with controlling the spread of fake explicit images of Taylor Swift. Industry executives are calling for legislation to criminalize harmful “deep fakes.” One case involved an AI-generated image of a nude woman resembling a public figure from India on Instagram, while the other featured an AI-generated depiction of a nude woman resembling an American public figure on Facebook. Meta initially left up the image of the Indian woman but reversed course after the board selected it for review. Meta has pledged to implement the board’s decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[842,6844,639,4325,4911,186,2134,33,5193,1969,249,121,1823,937,1991,6843,2685,1394,2952,252,687,1775,6845,6841,6132,4833,6130,1806,3798,817,6842,6001,886,1682,1944,1100],"class_list":["post-8576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-ai","tag-ai-generated-images","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bars","tag-bullying","tag-business","tag-challenges","tag-companies","tag-decisions","tag-elon-musk","tag-facebook","tag-featured","tag-increase","tag-india","tag-industry","tag-instagram","tag-legislation","tag-man","tag-media","tag-meta","tag-meta-platforms","tag-oversight","tag-oversight-board","tag-platform-x","tag-platforms","tag-policy","tag-porn","tag-services","tag-shares","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-platform","tag-struggling","tag-taylor-swift","tag-technology","tag-woman","tag-women"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n