Description: AI-generated spam images are increasingly filling Facebook feeds, with the platform’s algorithm reportedly amplifying these posts. Many of these images are bizarre, fake, and used in scams, misleading users into engaging with non-existent products or clickbait.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Meta and Facebook developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Meta users and Facebook users.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
803
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2024-05-14
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
npr.org · 2024
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Casey Morris, an attorney in Northern Virginia, recently started checking Facebook again after a long break. Among posts from friends and family, she noticed a strange trend.
"The caption will say, 'Close your eyes 70% and see magic.' And w…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
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