mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchSecurity writer, WIRED. Privacy, data, surveillance, cyber. Keen runner.
New: Last month, researchers found 50 paid ads on Meta’s platforms that included AI-generated child sexual abuse.
Meta said most of these ran before it rolled out new moderation AI.
Since then, Meta has ran another 250+ of these ads.
One used an image of a minor from a European royal family
NEW: The San Francisco City Attorney has hit Meta with a cease-and-desist telling it to stop publishing ads with AI-generated child sexual abuse.
The letter asks Meta why the same ads keep running.
Meta says the ads didn’t run in San Francisco and they are outside the city attorney's jurisdiction
https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-orders-meta-to-stop-allowing-ai-child-abuse-ads/
NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM.
The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-that-contained-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-imagery/
NEW: San Francisco's city attorney has sent cease and desist letters to Apple and Google, telling them to stop hosting and profiting off apps that can 'nudify' people.
"These companies have responsibility to ensure that apps on their platforms do not facilitate sexual abuse," David Chiu told me
This follows researchers repeatedly finding apps, commonly face swapping apps, that can nudify people in the App Store and Google Play Store. Researchers say the companies are well aware of the problems and are not doing enough about the harmful apps
Read the full story here: https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-demands-apple-and-google-delete-ai-nudify-apps-from-app-stores/
“No-one is asking for this..."
Just like millions of others, scammers on cybercrime forums are fed up with AI posts and the increased rollout of AI
https://www.wired.com/story/cybercriminals-are-complaining-about-ai-slop-flooding-their-forums/
Big new WIRED story:
Meta has been quietly shipping to code to run face recognition from its smart glasses. The code is now on millions of phones
From my colleagues Dhruv and Dell
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connections/
NEW: Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to force four people suing it over sexual deepfake images created with Grok to drop their public anonymity.
The lawsuit says there is a public interest in knowing the names of people accusing xAI, including a woman who alleges her father used Grok to create sexualize images depicting her as a child
The survey revealed “deep European distrust in the US”, the authors said.
London...
NEW:
Thousands of men are members of Telegram groups and channels that advertise and sell hacking and surveillance services that can be used to harass friends, wives and girlfriends, and former partners, new research has uncovered.
The findings, from a European nonprofit group, also say that the communities are involved in extensive trading, selling, and promotion of a huge variety of abusive content, including nonconsensual intimate images of women, so-called nudifying services, plus folders of images that sellers claim include child sexual abuse material and depictions of incest and rape.
https://www.wired.com/story/men-are-buying-hacking-tools-to-use-against-their-wives-and-friends/
NEW from me: Grok has continued to host sexualized and demeaning images of celebrities, a review of public posts from Grok Imagine has found.
As well as this, people have been creating full nudity (against Grok’s terms) and sex scenes with the Musk-owned AI
X and xAI removed the dozens of posts we flagged after we got in touch, but did not comment
https://www.wired.com/story/grok-is-still-hosting-sexualized-deepfakes-of-famous-women/
NEW: For more than a decade, police in South West England have been quietly experimenting with algorithms to score thousands of people. Most of them didn't know anything about it.
Staff didn't trust some systems, reports obtained by WIRED show, with experts saying some systems designed to protect children could have led to "historic harms"
By next year, London will have eight areas with fixed, police-operated, face recognition cameras, the Met has announced.
Really does continue the UK's push to roll out more and more face recognition systems—both those operated by the police and also in privately owned shops
NEW: The number of phones being searched at the US border just hit another high
- 16,000 devices were searched in the last three months—a record high for a quarter
- 55,000 in the fiscal year 2025 (Oct-Sept)—a yearly record high
