Microsoft introduced at the moment that it has partnered with StopNCII to proactively take away dangerous intimate pictures and movies from Bing utilizing digital hashes folks create from their delicate media.
StopNCII is a venture operated by the Revenge Porn Helpline that permits folks to create digital hashes of their intimate footage and movies with out importing the media from their cellphone. StopNCII then provides these hashes to a database used to search out the identical or related pictures 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 expertise with StopNCII, permitting enhanced creation of digital hashes with no individual’s pictures or movies leaving their system.
“Very like the hashing expertise that StopNCII.org already makes use of (PDQ), PhotoDNA is a further course of that permits recognized dangerous pictures to be hashed right into a digital fingerprint, which then will be shared with trade platforms to establish and take away any non-consensual intimate picture abuse materials,” explains the March announcement.
Microsoft introduced at the moment that they’ve been piloting using StopNCII’s database of hashes to take away intimate pictures inside the Bing search index. Utilizing this database, Microsoft says they’ve taken motion on 268,899 pictures by way of the top of August.
The rise of synthetic intelligence has additionally led to an elevated era of deep pretend nude pictures from non-intimate photographs shared on-line. Whereas these pictures 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 virtually all featured non-consensual use of a lady’s likeness. Many of those pictures are uploaded as “revenge porn,” for extortion, or to generate income by unscrupulous websites.
Sadly, AI-generated pictures make it more durable to match in opposition to PhotoDNA hashes. In these instances, these impacted ought to manually report the photographs to Microsoft, Google, and different on-line media corporations.
Microsoft says that impacted folks can use their Report a Concern web page to request that actual or artificial pictures be taken out of the Bing search index.
Whereas Google has not joined this initiative, additionally they present tips and a approach to take away intimate pictures from their index.