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Meta ordered to remove UK deepfakes as oversight board criticises ‘inadequate’ safeguards

Meta's Oversight Board ordered the company to remove AI-generated deepfake videos of a Scottish Labour councillor and a Muslim campaign volunteer from Facebook, ruling that leaving them up was wrong and criticising Meta's safeguards as inadequate. The board said the fake video of the councillor making inflammatory comments about refugees should not have remained on the platform, and that the video falsely depicting the campaign volunteer offering health advice while exercising or eating junk food should also have been removed.

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Meta ordered to remove UK deepfakes as oversight board criticises ‘inadequate’ safeguards
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By Dan Milmo Global technology editorSource:

The Guardian Technology Facebook told it was wrong in leaving up AI-generated videos of a Labour councillor and Muslim campaigner, amid calls to curb fakes

Meta’s “supreme court” has ordered the tech company to take down deepfake videos of a UK politician and a young Muslim woman from Facebook and do more to tackle AI-generated fake imagery.

A fake video showing a Labour party councillor in Scotland making inflammatory comments about refugees should not have been left up by Facebook, the board said. It also ruled that an AI-generated video of a Muslim campaign volunteer should have been removed after it falsely depicted her offering health advice while carrying out absurd exercises or eating junk food.

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