“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens
Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls' Instagram pics.
Meta's advertisements, promoting AI-based applications, inadvertently included child sexual abuse material (CSAM) featuring real minors on both Facebook and Instagram. The Tech Transparency Project (TTP) conducted an investigation, uncovering 332 such ads this year. The majority of these advertisements were promoting apps developed in China, with a significant number of them advertising "nudify" applications. These apps make it easy for malicious actors to digitally alter images of children using AI.
The TTP matched multiple CSAM ads to photos of genuine children that were found online. One ad transformed a press photo of a young member of a European royal family into a video of her engaging in a graphic sexual act. Another ad altered a 14-year-old Instagram influencer's picture, showing her in a new sports club uniform, into a video of her performing oral sex.
A third ad took a preteen posing in a pink athletic outfit with pigtails, and morphed it into a video where she appears frightened while being molested by an adult male.
These advertisements could potentially violate federal child pornography laws, as the Justice Department has made clear that AI-generated CSAM is just as harmful as traditional CSAM.
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