Ammalgam shares a report from Unirobotica: Last year, Facebook announced measures to protect the 2020 U.S. election from foreign influence and misleading information last year. Now, in addition to those, [The Washington Post reports] the firm has announced that it is banning deepfakes — manipulated photos and videos — from its platforms, a move aimed to curb misinformation ahead of the U.S. presidential election later this year.
This move is similar to a move made by Twitter to ban deepfakes from it’s platform. This was announced in a blog post by Monika Bickert, their Vice President of Global Policy Management, stating that “misleading manipulated media” would be removed if it meets the following criteria: “It has been edited or synthesized — beyond adjustments for clarity or quality — in ways that aren’t apparent to an average person and would likely mislead someone into thinking that a subject of the video said words that they did not actually say. And: It is the product of artificial intelligence or machine learning that merges, replaces or superimposes content onto a video, making it appear to be authentic.” Facebook did reveal that “this policy does not extend to content that is parody or satire, or video that has been edited solely to omit or change the order of words.”
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