Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians
Meta platforms recently ran ads for an AI porn-generation tool that seemingly encouraged users to create deepfaked videos resembling female US politicians, despite the company’s policies against ads containing sexual material. It’s the latest in a series of failures by Meta to keep advertisements for tools that produce nonconsensual intimate imagery off its platforms. The tool, which is called Kromix, bills itself as an “AI image styler.” A voice-over for one of the video advertisements, viewed
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Meta's advertising platform ran ads for an AI tool that creates deepfaked pornographic videos, including one depicting a female US politician, despite the company's stated policies prohibiting sexual content in ads. The ads were targeted exclusively to male users and remained active for several hours before being removed after a researcher inquired about them. This incident reflects a broader pattern in which Meta has failed to prevent advertisements for apps that generate nonconsensual intimate imagery, even as the company has removed hundreds of thousands of such ads and stated it is strengthening its detection systems. Female politicians have been repeatedly targeted by nonconsensual deepfake content as AI tools have become more accessible to the general public.
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