Do Stop Believing: Deepfakes’ Journey to Be the New Cybersecurity Threat

Do stop believing: Deepfakes’ journey to be the new cybersecurity threat

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Is the Oversight Board just "safety washing"?

I'm Alice Hunsberger. Trust & Safety Insider is my weekly rundown on the topics, industry trends and workplace strategies that Trust & Safety professionals need to know about to do their job. This week in T&S Insider, I review disappointing statements from Meta in response to their Oversight Board's decisions on LGBTQ+ safety, as well as some more bad news for LGBTQ+ youth.Besides thinking about the above, I've been trying to settle into the rhy…

Remember that ‘drunk Pelosi’ video? AI-powered deepfakes are making disinformation much more toxic

Should we be worried about deepfake videos? Well, sure. But I’ve tended to think that some skepticism is warranted. My leading example is a 6-year-old video of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in which we are told that she appears to be drunk. I say “we are told” because the video was simply slowed down to 75%, and the right-wing audience for whom it was intended thought this crude alteration was proof that she was loaded. Who needs deepfakes whe…

Meta Oversight Board Orders Removal of AI-Faked Ronaldo Ad Amid Deepfake Concerns

Meta’s Oversight Board Steps In Over Fake Ronaldo Ad Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has been told to take down an AI-altered video of Brazilian football star Ronaldo Nazário. The clip, which showed him supposedly endorsing an online game, was flagged as misleading—but it stayed up for way too long before anything was done. The Oversight Board, an independent group that reviews Meta’s content decisions, called the post a clear violation of the …