The efforts of some major search engines to crack down on nonconsensual deepfake porn have arguably been undermined by a news investigation showing that they can point users to tutorials explaining how to make deepfakes. An investigation by Glamour Magazine showed that Google, Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo search also pointed users of the search engines […]
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The efforts of some major search engines to crack down on nonconsensual deepfake porn have arguably been undermined by a news investigation showing that they can point users to tutorials explaining how to make deepfakes. An investigation by Glamour Magazine showed that Google, Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo search also pointed users of the search engines […]
Microsoft is piloting the use of the anti-nonconsensual deepfake porn platform Stop Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse (StopNCII) on its search engine Bing, as tech companies continue to crack down on non-consensual deepfakes. Non-consensual deepfake porn, often made using AI, has become a huge problem globally in recent years, and is often used nefariously for extortion […]
Google has updated its core Search to make non-consensual deepfake porn more difficult to find, and expanded the effects of deepfake porn removals made at the request of those featured in it. With the warp-speed rise in the abilities of generative AI recently, realistic deepfake porn videos and images made without the consent of those […]
Porn and other sexually explicit images will be automatically blurred when they are found via Google searches, even for users that do not have SafeSearch enabled, as part of a new default safety setting to be added to the world’s most-used internet search engine. The move, announced as part of Google’s Safer Internet Day in […]
The Mozilla Foundation, the not-for-profit group responsible for the Firefox browser (among other things) has announced plans to restructure in the wake of COVID-19, and it’s bad news for virtual reality (VR) fans. The company announced 250 lay-offs this week, as it rejigs its priorities for the future, in ways that were not part of […]
