Meta failing to curb spread of many sexualized AI deepfake celebrity images on Facebook – CBS News
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Meta has removed over a dozen fraudulent, sexualized images of famous female actors and athletes after a CBS News investigation found a high prevalence of AI-manipulated deepfake images on the company’s Facebook platform.
Dozens of fake, highly sexualized images of the actors Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy, Ariana Grande, Scarlett Johansson and former tennis star Maria Sharapova have been shared widely by multiple Facebook accounts, garnering hundreds of thousands of likes and many reshares on the platform.
“We’ve removed these images for violating our policies and will continue monitoring for other violating posts. This is an industry-wide challenge, and we’re continually working to improve our detection and enforcement technology,” Meta spokesperson Erin Logan told CBS News in a statement emailed on Friday.
An analysis of over a dozen of these images by Reality Defender, a platform that works to detect AI-generated media, showed that many of the photos were deepfake images — with AI-generated, underwear-clad bodies replacing the bodies of celebrities in otherwise real photographs. A few of the images were likely created using image stitching tools that do not involve AI, according to Reality Defender’s analysis.
“Almost all deepfake pornography does not have the consent of the subject being deepfaked,” Ben Colman, co-founder and CEO of Reality Defender told CBS News on Sunday. “Such content is growing at a dizzying rate, especially as existing measures to stop such content are seldom implemented.”
CBS News has sought comments from Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy, Ariana Grande, and Maria Sharapova on this story. Johansson declined to issue any comment, according to a representative for the actor.
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