Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians
Meta faced criticism after running advertisements for an AI app called Kromix that promised to generate nonconsensual deepfake pornography of female politicians. The incident highlights ongoing challenges for major tech platforms in moderating AI-generated content that violates safety and ethical policies.
Why it matters
The proliferation of nonconsensual AI imagery poses significant risks to political discourse and individual privacy, pressuring platforms to improve moderation.
gross Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians One ad featured a pornographic video with deepfake closely resembling a US politician.
30 Credit: Abdullah Guclu/Anadolu Credit: Abdullah Guclu/Anadolu Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav 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.
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