Meta Says All Images on Facebook and Instagram Created by AI will be Labeled – Science & Tech News

February 6, 2024 TruthUSA

The company that owns Facebook and Instagram has stated its intention to label all images on its social media platforms that have been created using artificial intelligence (AI).

Meta, which also owns the Threads social media site, has already been placing “Imagined with AI” labels on photorealistic images created using its own Meta AI feature.

The tech giant said it is now building “industry-leading tools” that will allow it to identify invisible markers on AI-generated images that have come from other sites such as Google, OpenAI, Microsoft or Adobe.

Meta has said it will roll out the labelling on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the coming months.

Sir Nick Clegg, the former British deputy prime minister who is now Meta’s president of global affairs, wrote in a statement that the move comes during a year when a “number of important elections are taking place around the world”.

He added: “During this time, we expect to learn much more about how people are creating and sharing AI content, what sort of transparency people find most valuable, and how these technologies evolve. What we learn will inform industry best practices and our own approach going forward.”

Sir Nick said the move is important at a time when “the difference between human and synthetic content” is becoming “blurred”.

Meta says it has been working with “industry partners on common technical standards for identifying AI content”, adding that it will be able to label AI-generated images when its technology detects “industry standard indicators”.

The company says the labels will come in “all languages”.

Sir Nick has said it’s not yet possible for Meta to identify all AI-generated content – with those who produce the images able to strip out invisible markers.

He added: “We’re working hard to develop classifiers that can help us to automatically detect AI-generated content, even if the content lacks invisible markers. At the same time, we’re looking for ways to make it more difficult to remove or alter invisible watermarks.”