02/06/2024

Meta to Crack Down on AI-generated Fakes

However, it will leave plenty undetected

Like other leading tech companies, Meta has spent the past year promising to speed up deployment of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Today it acknowledged it must also respond to the technology’s hazards, announcing an expanded policy of tagging AI-generated images posted to Facebook, Instagram and Threads with warning labels to inform people of their artificial origins.

Yet much of the synthetic media likely to appear on Meta's platforms is unlikely to be covered by the new policy, leaving many gaps through which malicious actors could slip.

"It's a step in the right direction, but with challenges," said Sam Gregory, program director of the nonprofit Witness, which helps people use technology to support human rights.

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