Facebook Is Already Mistakenly Tagging Real Photos as "Made With AI"

Not Made With AI Photographers are furious, accusing Meta of mistakenly labeling their legitimate work with a “Made with AI” label across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. As TechCrunch reports, the social media giant’s efforts to tamp down on the proliferation of unlabeled, AI-generated images are having plenty of undesirable consequences. That’s despite an urgent need, with tampered — and at times deceptively photorealistic — media spreading misinformation online largely unchecked, especially on Facebook. The false positives also highlight just how difficult it has become even for a top tech company to tell what’s real and what isn’t. Even OpenAI has struggled greatly to develop an effective detection tool that can distinguish between AI-generated and human-authored text. Insult to Injury Former White House photographer Pete Souza told TechCrunch that he believes changes Adobe made to its photo editing tools may be leading to false positives on Meta’s end. “What’s annoying is that the post forced me to include the ‘Made with AI’ even though I unchecked it,” he said. in February, Meta made a concerted PR effort to announce that it’s working on “common technical standards for identifying AI content, including video and audio.” “As the difference between human and synthetic content gets blurred, people want to know where the boundary lies,” the company’s president of global affairs Nick Clegg wrote in a blog post at the time. “People are often coming across AI-generated content for the first time and our users have told us they appreciate transparency around this new technology.”…Facebook Is Already Mistakenly Tagging Real Photos as "Made With AI"

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