Microsoft introduced at this time that it has partnered with StopNCII to proactively take away dangerous intimate photographs and movies from Bing utilizing digital hashes folks create from their delicate media.
StopNCII is a undertaking operated by the Revenge Porn Helpline that permits folks to create digital hashes of their intimate photos and movies with out importing the media from their telephone. StopNCII then provides these hashes to a database used to seek out the identical or comparable photographs on-line, that are then eliminated by their companions, together with Fb, TikTok, Reddit, Pornhub, Instagram, OnlyFans, and Snapchat.
In March, Microsoft shared its PhotoDNA know-how with StopNCII, permitting enhanced creation of digital hashes with out a individual’s photographs or movies leaving their machine.
“Very like the hashing know-how that StopNCII.org already makes use of (PDQ), PhotoDNA is a further course of that allows recognized dangerous photographs to be hashed right into a digital fingerprint, which then could be shared with trade platforms to determine and take away any non-consensual intimate picture abuse materials,” explains the March announcement.
Microsoft introduced at this time that they’ve been piloting the usage of StopNCII’s database of hashes to take away intimate photographs inside the Bing search index. Utilizing this database, Microsoft says they’ve taken motion on 268,899 photographs by way of the tip of August.
The rise of synthetic intelligence has additionally led to an elevated era of deep pretend nude photographs from non-intimate photographs shared on-line. Whereas these photographs are pretend, they are often as equally distressing to those that are being exploited.
A 2019 report by DeepTrace, now Sensity, confirmed that 96% of deepfake movies on the web are pornographic in nature and nearly all featured non-consensual use of a girl’s likeness. Many of those photographs are uploaded as “revenge porn,” for extortion, or to generate income by unscrupulous websites.
Sadly, AI-generated photographs make it more durable to match towards PhotoDNA hashes. In these instances, these impacted ought to manually report the pictures to Microsoft, Google, and different on-line media firms.
Microsoft says that impacted folks can use their Report a Concern web page to request that actual or artificial photographs be taken out of the Bing search index.
Whereas Google has not joined this initiative, in addition they present pointers and a approach to take away intimate photographs from their index.