Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human

Instagram is cracking down on AI-generated accounts that pretend to be human, renaming its 'AI creator' label to 'AI-generated profile' and penalizing accounts that fail to self-label by limiting their reach. The move follows user complaints about profiles that appear human but feature AI-generated people, as announced in an Instagram blog post.

Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human By Thomas RickerSource: The Verge AI https://www.theverge.com Instagram is finally taking steps to address the rise of fake AI-influencer accounts that have gotten harder to spot https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/943187/ai-content-creators . It's also renaming the "AI creator" label https://www.theverge.com/tech/922886/instagram-is-getting-an-ai-creator-label to "AI-generated profile" to make it clear when a profile features an AI-generated person that's not a real human being. "We've heard that people don't like seeing a profile that seems human, only to find out later that the person featured is AI-generated," said Instagram in a blog post https://creators.instagram.com/blog . "They want to know when a profile features an AI-generated person." To that end, Instagram will be hunting down accounts that don't self-label their AI-generated profiles, and penalize them by limi … Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.