Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
Meta ran ads for an app that created deepfake porn of female politicians.
Meta platforms ran advertisements for an AI tool called Kromix that generated deepfake pornography, including images resembling female US politicians. Despite Meta's policies against sexual content, the ads promoted the tool as having "no restrictions" and "all characters are real people." Apple removed the app from its App Store after being contacted by WIRED, and Meta eventually removed the ads.
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Full lessonMeta's automated ad review systems failed to detect and block advertisements for Kromix, an AI tool explicitly designed to generate non-consensual deepfake pornography of real individuals, including public figures. The ads openly stated 'no restrictions' and 'all characters are real people,' signals that should have triggered immediate policy enforcement. This failure highlights the dangerous gap between published platform policies and actual enforcement mechanisms, particularly when bad actors exploit AI-generated content. The incident underscores how inadequate monitoring of ad content can make major platforms complicit in enabling image-based sexual abuse and disinformation at scale.
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