![]() Regulators have developed an AI system, dubbed KIVI, to spot pornography and offensive content on Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, Telegram, and more-scanning thousands of public posts and web pages per day.Īnneke Plass, the communications director and spokesperson for the Media Authority of Berlin and Brandenburg, says that in December 32 accounts sharing pornography were reported to the public prosecutor’s office, and in March the authority sent 104 cases to the prosecutor. ![]() The letters and police action signal an escalation in Germany’s porn crackdown and come as authorities are using an artificial intelligence system to detect pornography. In recent weeks, more than a hundred porn creators and models in Germany have received identical letters and face criminal proceedings. As a result, the couple could face a fine of thousands of euros. The police had screenshots of the material and, crucially, had identified a lack of measures to prevent children from potentially seeing the adult content. An investigator told the couple that the police had found porn on their Twitter account, Tim says. The couple, who for the past six years have run an amateur porn project alongside their day jobs, called the police to find out what was going on. It doesn’t say where on the internet they were accused of sharing pornography illegally, nor which specific law they have broken. Printed under the masthead of Polizei Berlin, the letter outlined criminal charges: They had unlawfully shared porn on the internet. Or worse.The last thing Tim and Julian Blesh expected when they got home from traveling at the start of March was a letter from the police. Meaning that it’s not just Katy Perry who should be worried about her head being wrongly edited into porn, but also politicians, world leaders, and anybody else who doesn’t want to have a computer-generated video putting words into their mouth. The larger, looming problem, of course, is that this technology exists and is only getting better. It’s nice to see platforms like Reddit and Twitter, which historically haven’t been super great about swiftly banning problematic content, taking a stand against something this potentially harmful. “We will also suspend any account dedicated to posting this type of content.” “We will suspend any account we identify as the original poster of intimate media that has been produced or distributed without the subject’s consent,” a Twitter spokesperson told me in an email. Communities focused on this content and users who post such content will be banned from the site. These policies were previously combined in a single rule they will now be broken out into two distinct ones. ![]() As of February 7, 2018, we have made two updates to our site-wide policy regarding involuntary pornography and sexual or suggestive content involving minors. Reddit strives to be a welcoming, open platform for all by trusting our users to maintain an environment that cultivates genuine conversation. Both sites have announced that they will be banning all deepfakes. Motherboard first started reporting on deepfakes back in December, work which seems to have directly impacted policies coming out of Twitter and Reddit this week. These videos edit in faces of celebrities, often with scary seamlessness, and are known as “deepfakes,” after the handle of a Reddit user who helped spawn the genre. Social-media platforms are pushing back against the growing - and alarming - trend of computer-generated porn online. A screenshot from a deepfake video using Katy Perry’s face.
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