Reports of AI-generated videos of coaches inappropriately touching athletes were ineffective; Meta deleted them only after being pressed

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   Gizmodo

   Meta initially said there was no violation, then deleted the disturbing AI videos after reporters pressed

   A Futurism investigation found that multiple Facebook accounts sharing AI-generated videos remained undeleted after user reports; the videos depicted coaches inappropriately touching young women and girls during gymnastics, ballet and yoga training. Meta initially said 8 of the pages did not violate community standards, and only after Futurism contacted its media team did it remove the accounts and update some of the notices. Futurism reported 10 pages using an ordinary account, and a week later 8 were judged not to violate the rules, while the other 2 had disappeared for unknown reasons. Meta confirmed to Futurism that it had removed the content, saying content depicting abuse or exploitation is not allowed on its platforms whether real or AI-generated, and that in the previous quarter it proactively detected and removed 98% of child-harm posts. Meta is also testing LLM-assisted content moderation, with preliminary tests saying it made 13% fewer errors than humans in judging violating content and found 10% more violating content. The article also mentioned that X's Grok had previously been used to generate non-consensual sexualized images and prompted a government investigation.

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   X@mags_h11· Discussion

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5. 01:55
   FuturismSelected

   After user reports, Meta still refused to remove AI-generated videos of coaches inappropriately touching young athletes

   A Futurism investigation found that a large number of accounts on Facebook posted AI-generated videos of coaches inappropriately touching young female athletes, with imagery approaching photo-realistic quality, and some individual videos exceeded 100,000 views. Reporters using an ordinary account reported ten related accounts for adult content and sexual exploitation; a week later they received notice that eight of the accounts were judged by the platform not to violate community standards and would not be removed; only after the reporters contacted Meta's media team were all of these pages removed. Meta responded that abusive or exploitative content, whether real or AI-generated, has no place on its platform, and said that in the last quarter alone it proactively detected and removed 98% of posts harmful to children before they were reported. After the reporters' reports, the platform's recommendation algorithm instead pushed more similar videos to the account used, one of which exceeded 176,000 views within two days of posting. Gymnast and safe-sport advocate Kim Shore commented that such content normalizes abusive interactions between coaches and young athletes and could be used by real-world abusers as a template to disguise inappropriate behavior.

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