Meta said Thursday that he was continuing an application manufacturer that uses artificial intelligence to simulate naked images of real people who seem dressed in images.
Meta said he filed a complaint in Hong Kong against Joy Timeline HK Limited, the entity behind the Crushai application, to prevent him from publishing Crushai applications on Meta platforms.
“This legal action underlines both the gravity with which we take this abuse and our commitment to do our best to protect our community,” Meta said in a statement. “We will continue to take the necessary measures – which could include legal action – against those who abuse our platforms like this.”
Legal action comes after Joy Timeline made “multiple attempts” to bypass Meta’s advertising examination process, according to Meta.
Advertisements for so-called nudify applications appeared on Meta Facebook and Instagram platforms Despite the violation of advertising policies of social sites. Crushai, which makes the applications, has promoted AI tools which, according to users, allows users to download photos and “see any naked”, a The CBS News investigation was found.
Meta said the company prohibits “non -consensual intimate images” on its platforms. The company previously told CBS News that it had deleted ads for Nudify technology, deleted pages on its platforms that run the spots and permanently block the websites associated with applications.
Meta said on Thursday that she will share information, including AD URLs on entities that violate its policies with other technical companies through the Lantern Tech Coalition program, which follows behaviors that violate their children’s safety rules. Since March, Meta has provided information on more than 3,800 sites shared with other technological companies, according to the company, on the program.
Meta said Nudify’s advertisers use various ways to avoid detection on its platforms, including harmless images to try to get around the technology used to identify these ads on IT sites. As a result, he developed better technology to detect ads from Nudify applications that are presented as benign, Meta said on Thursday.
“We have worked with external experts and our own specialized teams to extend the list of terms, sentences and emojis related to the security that our systems are trained to detect these announcements,” said Meta.
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