Did you know YouTube Updates Harassment And Cyberbullying Policies Amid Crackdown Against Dangerous AI Content Impacting Minors
Popular video-sharing app YouTube is going strong in terms of its crackdown against AI content that simulates deadly and drastic events linked to minors in a very realistic manner.
The
tech giant just confirmed how it would be making it harder for such
incidents to arise in the first place through stringent policies linked
to both cybercrimes and harassment.
Google has already been in
the hot seat when critics spoke about how AI content can lead to drastic
and devastating impacts on the minds of minors who are unaware of being
targeted by cybercriminals who use AI technology to attain sick and
disturbing benefits.
The company added that the crackdown in the form of harsher policies
would be laid down starting the middle of this month so it’s ready to
come into effect as early as next week.
The app owned by Google
has been noticing how so many content creators are obsessed with crime
and therefore are using AI to recreate realistic deaths or minors gone
missing. Such disturbing ordeals have led to more individuals making use
of the breakthrough technology to give minors linked to high-profile
cases the chance to actually voice deaths in a realistic manner that
sounds exactly like how a child involved in the crime would.
So
many content creators in the recent past were called out for the act for
disturbing narration practices entailing the kidnapping and deaths
linked to British victims such as a two-year-old boy named James Bulgar
who was reportedly described in the Washington Post.
Other common narrations that have taken place include the case involving
Madeleine McCann who is a three-year-old based in the UK that suddenly
disappeared from a top resort. Meanwhile, there is Gabriel Fernandez who
was harassed, abused, and then killed by his own parent and her lover
in the state of California.
Therefore, the online video
powerhouse would get rid of any content violating the latest policies,
and users who get strikes cannot publish videos, stories, or any kind of
livestreams, even for seven days. After they get three strikes for
violations committed, their channel would be deleted forever from the
app as penalized.
These new changes are set to take center stage
as early as two months after the app began rolling out new policies
related to responsible disclosures about AI content, alongside the
latest tools that can delete deepfakes once a request for the act is
generated.
One change for this to ensue would entail users openly
disclosing that they’ve produced, changed, or even made content that
seems realistic in nature.
The firm generated warnings on this
front including how those that did not make such disclosures and still
went ahead with publishing the content would be forced to go through a
phase of suspension or content removal from the app’s Partner Program
that’s designed to help aspiring creators generate more revenue.
Similarly, other punishments can arise on this front as well.
Additionally, the app mentioned during the time how some of the material
produced through AI means could be deleted if it gets used to display
violence realistically or in those cases where it’s labeled.
Toward
the end of last year, we saw social media giant TikTok roll out a tool
that enabled creators to add tags or labels to content to display
realistic moments produced synthetically or even those where
manipulation of the media is done. So far, the app has also been
successful at taking down any pictures produced through AI that fail to
disclose their nature.
