More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids
Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.
TTP - Meta Ran Hundreds of Paid Ads with Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
TTP has found more than 300 ads with child sexual abuse material that ran on Facebook and Instagram. Some include images of real children.
“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.
Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down
Facebook is hosting huge numbers of horrifying AI-generated videos of violent child abuse, and Meta is barely taking them down.
Child Predators Turn to Open-Source AI to Make Unlimited Illegal Images
Open-source AI tools are fueling a rise in explicit child sexual images, and current laws are ill-equipped to stop it
Meta greenlights Facebook, Instagram ads based on your AI chats
Meta will show ads and other content to users based on their interactions with the Meta AI digital assistant and other generative artificial intelligence tools.
Meta’s going to put AI-generated images in your Facebook and Instagram feeds
Facebook and Instagram feeds are about to get messier.
AI in Disguise—Quasi-Experimental Analysis of a Large-Scale Deployment of AI-Generated Ads
As Taboola prepared to launch its GenAI Ad Maker, a tool that lets advertisers create ad images within the platform, it faced a consequential question about whether AI-generated ad images would perform well with real consumers, and under what conditions. Working with Taboola, we construct a quasi-experimental comparison of 4,633 ‘sibling ads,’ meaning AI-generated and human-made images launched by the same advertisers, in identical campaign settings, at the same time. These ads span more than 369 million impressions and 2.5 million clicks. We do not find a detectable average click-through-rate disadvantage for AI-generated images relative to their human-made siblings. However, this average masks an important boundary condition: ads with AI-generated images outperform human-made ads when the AI images do not ‘look like AI.’ We identify key visual features influencing consumers’ perceptions of whether an ad looks AI-generated. While AI generates sharper, clearer, and less blurry images with larger faces, consumers associate these features with human-made ads. On the other hand, in line with consumers’ expectations, aesthetics, lower warmth, and intense color saturation in ads signal AI generation. These findings support Taboola’s roll-out communication, advertiser guidance, and continued refinement of the GenAI Ad Maker.
Do You Like These AI Images of Dying, Mutilated Children? Facebook Algorithm Wonders
Facebook's recommendation engine, which is core to the company's business model, is injecting grotesque images of AI-generated child gore into people's feeds.
Horrific AI-Generated Breastfeeding Images Bypass Facebook’s Moderation
A page called Mom Daily is using AI-generated images of mothers and babies to bypass Facebook’s rules on nudity, with some really terrifying results.
Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming
Meta removed 10.9 million Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to “criminal scam centers” last year, the company announced on Wednesday.
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
Scoop: Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
This comes just two weeks after Meta and YouTube were found negligent in a landmark case about social media addiction.
AI-Generated Taylor Swift Porn Went Viral on Twitter. Here's How It Got There
404 Media traced back the viral and abusive images of Taylor Swift to a specific Telegram community. That group sometimes uses Microsoft's AI tools.
NEW: A TTP investigation found that Meta ran hundreds of ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Facebook and Instagram.
TTP - Meta Ran Hundreds of Paid Ads with Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
www.techtransparencyproject.orgNEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/faceb…
