Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids
Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of imagery depicting child sexual abuse. Reader discretion is strongly advised.
Early last month, Meta deleted around 50 ads posted on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads that directly included child sexual abuse material (CSAM), following reporting by WIRED. At the time, the company said that most of the abusive ads had been published prior to it rolling out new AI tools designed to “better detect and block” harmful ads being uploaded. That AI system, however, doesn’t appear to have been entirely effective.
Instead of spotting a decline in the abusive ads in recent weeks, researchers say they have now discovered hundreds more of the disturbing ads containing graphic sexual scenes involving children—including some that were identical to those Meta recently removed. More than 250 additional ads containing CSAM have run across Meta’s social media platforms since the start of August, according to researchers at the...
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