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Facebook and Instagram’s response to deepfake porn is under review
by oversight board
By Clare Duffy, CNN
Updated:
8:51 AM EDT, Tue April 16, 2024
Source: CNN
Meta’s Oversight Board is set to evaluate the company’s handling of
deepfake pornography amid growing concerns that artificial intelligence
is in the creation of fake, explicit imagery as a form of harassment.
The Oversight Board said Tuesday that it will review how Meta addressed
two explicit, AI-generated images of female public figures, one from
the United States and one from India, to assess whether the company has
appropriate policies and practices in place to address such content —
and whether it is enforcing those policies consistently around the
world.
The threat of AI-generated pornography has gained attention in recent
months, with celebrities including , as well as and other , falling
victim to the form of online abuse. Widely accessible generative AI
tools have made it faster, easier and cheaper to create such images.
Meanwhile, social media platforms make it possible to spread these
images rapidly.
“Deepfake pornography is a growing cause of gender-based harassment
online and is increasingly used to target, silence and intimidate women
– both on and offline,” Meta Oversight Board Co-Chair Helle
Thorning-Schmidt said in a statement.
“We know that Meta is quicker and more effective at moderating
content in some markets and languages than others,” said
Thorning-Schmidt, who is also the former prime minister of Denmark.
“By taking one case from the US and one from India, we want to look
at whether Meta is protecting all women globally in a fair way.”
Meta’s Oversight Board is an entity made up of experts in areas
such as freedom of expression and human rights. It is often described
as a kind of Supreme Court for Meta, as it allows users to appeal
content decisions on the company’s platforms. The board makes
recommendations to the company about how to handle certain content
moderation decisions, as well as broader policy suggestions.
As part of its review, the board will evaluate one instance of an
AI-generated nude image resembling a public figure from India that was
shared to Instagram by an account that “only shares AI-generated
images of Indian women.”
A user reported the image for being pornographic, but the report was
automatically closed after it did not receive a review by Instagram
within 48 hours. The same user appealed Instagram’s decision to leave
the image up, but the report was again not reviewed and automatically
closed. After the Oversight Board told Meta of its intention to take up
the case, the company determined it had allowed the image to remain in
error and removed it for violating bullying and harassment rules,
according to the board.
The second case involves an AI-generated image of a nude woman being
groped, which was posted to a Facebook group for AI creations. The
image was meant to resemble an American public figure, who was also
mentioned in the image’s caption.
The same image had been posted previously by a different user, after
which point it was escalated to policy experts who decided to remove it
for violating bullying and harassment rules, “specifically for
‘derogatory sexualized photoshop or drawings.’” The image was
then added to a photo matching bank which automatically detects when
rule-breaking images are reposted, so the second user’s post was
automatically removed.
As part of this latest review, the Oversight Board is seeking public
comments — which can be — about deepfake pornography, including how
such content can harm women and how Meta has responded to posts
featuring AI-generated explicit imagery. The public comment period
closes on April 30.
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