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Meta mentioned it was testing an AI-driven nudity safety software that may discover and blur photos containing nudity. (Consultant picture)
The US firm mentioned it might additionally provide recommendation and security tricks to anybody sending or receiving such messages.
Meta mentioned on Thursday it was creating new instruments to guard teenage customers from “sextortion” scams on its Instagram platform, which has been accused by US politicians of damaging the psychological well being of kids.
Gangs run sextortion scams by persuading individuals to supply specific photos of themselves after which threatening to launch them to the general public until they obtain cash.
Meta mentioned it was testing an AI-driven “nudity safety” software that may discover and blur photos containing nudity that had been despatched to minors on the app’s messaging system.
“This fashion, the recipient will not be uncovered to undesirable intimate content material and has the selection to see the picture or not,” Capucine Tuffier, who’s in command of little one safety at Meta France, advised AFP.
The US firm mentioned it might additionally provide recommendation and security tricks to anybody sending or receiving such messages.
Some 3,000 younger individuals fell sufferer to sexploitation scams in 2022 in america, based on the authorities there.
Individually, greater than 40 US states started suing Meta in October in a case that accuses the corporate of getting “profited from youngsters’s ache”.
The authorized submitting alleged Meta had exploited younger customers by making a enterprise mannequin designed to maximise time they spend on the platform regardless of hurt to their well being.
‘On-device machine studying’
Meta introduced in January it might roll out measures to guard under-18s that included tightening content material restrictions and boosting parental supervision instruments.
The agency mentioned on Thursday that the most recent instruments had been constructing on “our long-standing work to assist shield younger individuals from undesirable or probably dangerous contact”.
“We’re testing new options to assist shield younger individuals from sextortion and intimate picture abuse, and to make it harder for potential scammers and criminals to search out and work together with teenagers,” the corporate mentioned.
It added that the “nudity safety” software used “on-device machine studying”, a type of Synthetic Intelligence, to analyse photos.
The agency, which can be continuously accused of violating the information privateness of its customers, pressured that it might not have entry to the pictures until customers reported them.
Meta mentioned it might additionally use AI instruments to establish accounts sending offending materials and severely limit their capability to work together with younger customers on the platform.
Whistle-blower Frances Haugen, a former Fb engineer, publicised analysis in 2021 carried out internally by Meta — then often called Fb — which confirmed the corporate had lengthy been conscious of the hazards its platforms posed for the psychological well being for younger individuals.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – AFP)
