instagram - X-Industry - Red Sky Alliance2024-03-28T12:57:15Zhttps://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/feed/tag/instagramMeta Says It Will Label AI-Generated Imageshttps://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/meta-says-it-will-label-ai-generated-images2024-02-21T17:00:00.000Z2024-02-21T17:00:00.000ZJim McKeehttps://redskyalliance.org/members/JimMcKee<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}12385560484,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}12385560484,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="250" alt="12385560484?profile=RESIZE_400x" /></a>Facebook and Instagram users will start seeing labels on AI-generated images on their social media feeds, part of a broader tech industry initiative to sort between what is real and what is not. A Meta spokesman said on 06 February 2024 that it is working with industry partners on technical standards to make it easier to identify images and, eventually, video and audio generated by artificial intelligence tools.<a href="#_ftn1">[1]</a></p>
<p>See: <a href="https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/why-do-some-ai-images-look-like-me">https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/why-do-some-ai-images-look-like-me</a></p>
<p>Just how well it will work at a time when it is easier than ever to make and distribute AI-generated imagery that can cause harm, from election misinformation to nonconsensual fake nudes of celebrities. “It’s kind of a signal that they’re taking seriously the fact that generation of fake content online is an issue for their platforms,” said Gili Vidan, an assistant professor of information science at Cornell University. She stated it could be “quite effective” in flagging a large portion of AI-generated content made with commercial tools, but it won’t likely catch everything.</p>
<p>Meta’s president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, did not specify when the labels would appear but said it would be “in the coming months” and in different languages, noting that a “number of important elections are taking place around the world. As the difference between human and synthetic content gets blurred, people want to know where the boundary lies,” he said.</p>
<p>Meta already puts an “Imagined with AI” label on photorealistic images made by its tool. Still, most AI-generated content flooding its social media services comes from elsewhere. Several tech industry collaborations, including the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative, have been working to set standards. A push for digital watermarking and labeling AI-generated content was also part of an executive order that US President Joe Biden signed in October.</p>
<p>Clegg said that Meta will work to label “images from Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Adobe, Midjourney, and Shutterstock as they implement their plans for adding metadata to images created by their tools.”</p>
<p>Google said AI labels were coming to YouTube and its other platforms last year. “In the coming months, we’ll introduce labels that inform viewers when the realistic content they’re seeing is synthetic,” YouTube CEO Neal Mohan reiterated in a year-ahead blog post last week.</p>
<p>One potential concern for consumers is if tech platforms get more effective at identifying AI-generated content from a set of major commercial providers but miss what is made with other tools, creating a false sense of security. “There’s a lot that would hinge on how platforms communicate this to users,” said Cornell’s Vidan. “What does this mark mean? With how much confidence should I take it? What is its absence supposed to tell me?”</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref1">[1]</a> <a href="https://www.securityweek.com/meta-says-it-will-label-ai-generated-images-on-facebook-and-instagram/">https://www.securityweek.com/meta-says-it-will-label-ai-generated-images-on-facebook-and-instagram/</a></p></div>Why do Some AI Images Look Like Me?https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/why-do-some-ai-images-look-like-me2023-12-20T17:00:00.000Z2023-12-20T17:00:00.000ZJim McKeehttps://redskyalliance.org/members/JimMcKee<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}12331830864,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}12331830864,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="250" alt="12331830864?profile=RESIZE_400x" /></a>Meta recently released a new standalone AI image generator. The tech is based on its Emu image synthesis and the way it all works might surprise you. Consider this with Meta AI already built into the Meta apps like Messenger and Instagram. It is now available in a browser window and is quite impressive. The only catch is that users are the ones supplying the source images.<a href="#_ftn1">[1]</a></p>
<p>Meta scrapes all of our social media feeds to the tune of about one billion images, according to Ars Technica. The AI can fabricate groups of people that might look somewhat familiar, but only if you are suspicious. One image the AI generated caused researchers to question its source. They asked the AI to create an image of a group of people smiling at the camera. Some of them looked strangely familiar. They would not say any of them looked like their actual friends, but they also do not remember consenting to an AI experiment like this. And what if this begins to be misused?</p>
<p>See: <a href="https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/how-to-spot-a-deepfake-it-s-easy">https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/how-to-spot-a-deepfake-it-s-easy</a></p>
<p>We hand over our data to help advertisers target us. We grudgingly provide private information which can be used for nefarious purposes. Now, Meta is using our images to build an AI image generator, whether we want to be involved with that or not. Readers might think, what is the big deal? The images are publicly available, and according to one report, the AI does not include the private images we only share with friends and family. If an AI uses our images to create something unrecognizable, and if we are all contributing to the AI landscape in a fun and mostly harmless way, should we just play along?</p>
<p>Slowly but surely, we become unwilling participants in an AI revolution that could become an AI catastrophe. Technology can be amazingly helpful, especially to creative types who need inspiration (of course, it could also put them out of a job).</p>
<p>See: <a href="https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/artists-fighting-back-against-ai">https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/artists-fighting-back-against-ai</a></p>
<p>What some researchers are against is the lack of consent. It might be buried somewhere in the terms of service. No one remembers agreeing to those, but it is clear that everyone is helping Meta increase market share and prove they can keep up with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google.</p>
<p>Even with the Imagine app in a browser, there is no option where you consent to allow Meta to use public images. No one knows where this will lead. What seems harmless and fun to most posters did not think too much about privacy concerns when Facebook first launched and can quickly turn sour. Meta is probably scraping images and analyzing trends, knowing how often we share photos of kids and family. Users are feeding the beast, one image at a time.</p>
<p>For people sharing public images and not knowing how to make them private, it can feel like another invasion of privacy. That is not a good feeling, even if our images look amazing.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref1">[1]</a> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnbbrandon/2023/12/12/meta-is-scraping-our-photos-from-facebook-and-instagram-to-create-ai-images/">https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnbbrandon/2023/12/12/meta-is-scraping-our-photos-from-facebook-and-instagram-to-create-ai-images/</a></p></div>Meta / Instagram and Kidshttps://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/meta-instagram-and-kids2021-11-19T19:50:02.000Z2021-11-19T19:50:02.000ZBill Schenkelberghttps://redskyalliance.org/members/BillSchenkelberg<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9825168682,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9825168682,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="250" alt="9825168682?profile=RESIZE_400x" /></a>A bipartisan group of state attorneys general said on Thursday they had opened an investigation into Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, for promoting its social media app Instagram while knowing of mental and emotional harms caused by Instagram. </p>
<p>As of now, 11 US states are involved in the investigation, including California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont, as well as the District of Columbia. The Massachusetts attorney general and one of the leaders of the investigation, said the states were examining whether the company’s actions violated state consumer protection laws and put the public at risk. “Facebook, now Meta, has failed to protect young people on its platforms and instead chose to ignore or, in some cases, double down on known manipulations that pose a real threat to physical and mental health, exploiting children in the interest of profit,” she said.</p>
<p>The move comes after a mountain of documents from a former employee detailed research inside of the social media company that suggested teenagers suffered body image issues when using Instagram. The documents, called <u>The Facebook Papers</u>, were shared with journalists last month. The Wall Street Journal (WJS) first reported on the documents and the issues at Instagram with the help of the whistle-blower.<a href="#_ftn1">[1]</a> </p>
<p>The Nebraska attorney general and another leader of the investigation, said the states would examine, “the techniques utilized by Meta to increase the frequency and duration of engagement by young users and the resulting harms caused by such extended engagement. When social media platforms treat our kids as mere commodities to manipulate for longer screen time engagement and data extraction, it becomes imperative for state attorneys general to engage our investigative authority under our consumer protection laws,” he said in a tweet.</p>
<p>The states’ investigation adds to building regulatory pressure on Meta and other majors of Silicon Valley. The whistle blower and public interest groups have filed at least nine complaints to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claiming Meta mislead investors about its efforts to protect users from disinformation and hate. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and dozens of states have filed antitrust lawsuits to break up Meta, and members of Congress have also vowed to create privacy, speech and antitrust legislation aimed at reining in the power of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. </p>
<p>Spanning tens of thousands of pages and gigabytes of data, the Facebook Papers show a company struggling to deal with many issues that come as a byproduct of its enormous scale and billions of users, spanning topics like misinformation, addiction and manipulation of users around the world. Much of the information came in the form of detailed reports investigating the issues, laid out by the company’s research division. Meta has said the research efforts are intended to address the issues they pinpoint, with the aim of improving the company’s products and services.</p>
<p>How did this all begin? In September, WJS published The Facebook Files, a series of reports based on leaked documents. The series exposed evidence that Facebook, which on 28 October changed their name from Facebook to Meta, and one of its products – Instagram - was aggravating body-image issues among teenagers. </p>
<p>The whistle-blower a Facebook product manager who left the company in May said during an interview with “60 Minutes” that she was responsible for the leak of those internal documents. Her testimony in Congress on 5 October 2021cbefore a Senate subcommittee, provided that Facebook was willing to use hateful and harmful content on its site to keep users coming back. Facebook executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, called her accusations untrue.</p>
<p>The Whistle blower also filed a complaint with the SEC and provided the documents to Congress in redacted form. A congressional staff member then supplied the documents, known as the Facebook Papers, to several news organizations, including The New York Times. </p>
<p>Documents derived from the Facebook Papers show the degree to which Facebook knew of extremist groups on its site trying to polarize American voters before the election. They also reveal that internal researchers had repeatedly determined how Facebook’s key features amplified toxic content on the platform. The documents detail that roughly a third of teenage girls in a survey who already felt bad about their bodies said Instagram made them feel worse. “Comparisons on Instagram can change how young women view and describe themselves,” the documents said.</p>
<p>Meta has disputed the characterization of the initial reporting on Instagram’s issues, saying that the story lacked context, left out vital information and was a poor interpretation of the data obtained by WJS. The company argued that on 11 of 12 well-being issues, the surveyed teenage girls said that Instagram made them feel “better and not worse.” “It is simply not accurate that this research demonstrates Instagram is ‘toxic’ for teen girls,” said a vice president and head of research at Facebook. </p>
<p>In a statement this past week, a representative for Meta strongly disputed the claims made by the state attorneys general against Instagram. “These accusations are false and demonstrate a deep misunderstanding of the facts,” said a spokeswoman for the company. “While challenges in protecting young people online impact the entire industry, we’ve led the industry in combating bullying and supporting people struggling with suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and eating disorders.”</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref1">[1]</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/technology/meta-instagram-investigation-teens.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/technology/meta-instagram-investigation-teens.html</a></p></div>