The surveillance panelMeta’s semi-indeparted Policy Council, turns his attention to the way in which the social platforms of the company manage explicit images generated by AI. Tuesday, he announced surveys on two separate cases on how Instagram in India and Facebook in the United States managed the images generated by the AI of public figures after Meta systems failed to detect and respond to explicit content.
In both cases, the sites have now shot down the media. The board of directors does not appoint individuals targeted by IA images “to avoid harassment based on sex”, according to a meta e-mail sent to Techcrunch.
The board of directors takes over cases on Meta’s moderation decisions. Users must first call Meta on a moderation decision before approaching the supervisory board. The Board of Directors should publish its complete results and its conclusions in the future.
The cases
Describing the first case, the Board of Directors said that a user had pointed out as pornography a nude generated by AI of a public character from India on Instagram. The image has been published by an account which exclusively publishes images of Indian women created by AI, and the majority of users who react to these images are based in India.
Meta failed to eliminate the image after the first report, and the report for the report was closed automatically after 48 hours after the company did not examine the report more. When the original complainant appealed the decision, the report was again closed automatically without any meta surveillance. In other words, after two reports, the explicit image generated by AI has remained on Instagram.
The user then finally called on the board of directors. The company did not act at the time to remove the reprehensible content and deleted the image to violate its community standards on intimidation and harassment.
The second case relates to Facebook, where a user published an explicit image generated by AI that looked like an American public character in a group focused on AI creations. In this case, the social network removed the image because it was published by another user earlier, and Meta added it to a media correspondence service bank in the category “derogatory photoshop or drawings”.
When Techcrunch asked why the board of directors selected a case where the company managed to eliminate an explicit image generated by AI, the Council said that it selected cases “which are emblematic of broader problems on Meta platforms ”. He added that these cases help the advisory council to examine the overall effectiveness of META policy and processes for various subjects.
“We know that Meta is faster and more efficient to moderate content in certain markets and languages than others. By taking a matter in the United States and India, we want to see if Meta protects all women around the world in a fair way, “said the co-chair of the board of directors, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, in a statement.
“The Council considers that it is important to explore whether META’s policies and application practices are effective in solving this problem.”
The problem of deeply porn and online violence based on the sexes
Some – not all – generative AI tools in recent years have expanded to allow users to generate porn. As Techcrunch previously reported it, groups like An unstable broadcast is trying to monetize porn ai with Ethical Troubles Lines And bias in data.
In regions like India, Deepfakes has also become a problem with concern. Last year, a report of Bbc noted that the number of deep videos of Indian actresses has been skyrocketing lately. Data suggest That women are more commonly subjects for deep videos.
Earlier this year, the IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar dissatisfaction expressed with regard to the approach of technological companies to counter.
“If a platform thinks that it can run away without eliminating Deepfake videos, or simply maintaining an occasional approach, we have the power to protect our citizens by blocking these platforms,” said Chandrasekhar at a conference press at the time.
Although India has thought about bringing it specific rules related to Fake in the law, nothing is yet in stone.
Although the country has provisions to report online violence based on sex under the law, experts note that The process could be tediousAnd there is often little support. In a study published last year, the Indian advocacy group It’s for change Note that courts in India must have robust processes to combat online violence based on sex and not trivialize these cases.
Aparajita Bharti, co-founder of The Quantum Hub, a public policy consulting company based in India, said there should be limits to AI models to prevent them from creating explicit content that causes damage.
“The main risk of generative AI is that the volume of this content increases because it is easy to generate such content and with a high degree of sophistication. Therefore, we must first prevent the creation of such content by forming AI models to limit the exit in the event of intention to harm someone is already clear. We must also introduce default labeling for easy detection, ”said Bharti to Techcrunch by e-mail.
Devika Malik, an expert in platform politics who previously worked in the Meta political team in South Asia, said that if social networks have policies against non-consensual intimate imagery, the application depends in largely part of the user declaration.
“This places an unfair on the user affected to prove his identity and the lack of consent (as is the case with Meta’s policy). This may be more subject to errors with regard to synthetic environments, and to say that the time taken to capture and verify these external signals allows the content to win harmful traction, “said Malik.
There are currently only a few global laws that deal with the production and distribution of porn generated using AI tools. A handful of American states Have laws against Deepfakes. The United Kingdom has presented a law this week Criminalize the creation of sexually explicit images fed by AI.
The meta response and the next steps
In response to the case of the supervisory board, Meta said that she had deleted the two content. However, the social media company did not approach the fact that it failed to delete the content on Instagram after the first user reports or during the duration of the content on the platform.
Meta said he is using a mixture of artificial intelligence and human review to detect sexually suggestive content. The social media giant said that he did not recommend this type of content in places like Instagram Explorer or wrap recommendations.
The supervisory board requested public comments – With a deadline of April 30 – on the question that answers deep porn damage, contextual information on the proliferation of such content in regions such as the United States and India, and the possible traps of the ‘Meta approach in the detection of explicit images generated by AI.
The board of directors investigates the cases and comments of the public and will publish the decision on the site in a few weeks.
These cases indicate that large platforms are still struggling with older moderation processes while the tools fueled by AI allowed users to create and easily distribute different types of content. Companies like Meta experience tools that Use AI For content generationwith some efforts for detect such images. In April, the company announced that it Apply the badges “made with AI” In Deepfakes if it could detect content using “Industrial Standard Image Indicators” or user disclosure.
The expert in platform policy, Malik, said that labeling is often ineffective because the system to detect the imagery generated by AI is still not reliable.
“It has been shown that labeling has a limited impact when it comes to limiting the distribution of harmful content. If we think about the images generated by the A-Taylor Swift, millions of users have been directed to these images through the subject of X ‘Taylor Swift Ai’. Thus, people and the platform knew that the content was not authentic, and it was always algorithmically amplified, ”noted Malik.
However, the authors constantly find ways to escape these detection systems and publish problematic content on social platforms.
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