Meta turns to AI to protect minors from ‘sextortion’ on Instagram

Meta said on Thursday it was developing new tools to protect teenage users from "sextortion" scams on its Instagram platform, which has been accused by US politicians of damaging the mental health of youngsters.

Meta said it was testing an AI-driven “nudity protection” tool that would find and blur images containing nudity that were sent to minors on the app’s messaging system. Separately, more than 40 US states began suing Meta in October in a case that accuses the company of having “profited from children’s pain”.

It added that the “nudity protection” tool used “on-device machine learning”, a kind of Artificial Intelligence, to analyse images. A top Vietnamese property tycoon was sentenced to death on Thursday in one of the biggest corruption cases in history, with an estimated $27 billion in damages.A civilian staff of the Ministry of Defence, Ifeanyi Onumaegbu, attached to the Laboratory Department of the Nigerian Navy Reference Hospital Ojo, was found dead in his office after a fight with his colleagues. Onumaegbu's death was confirmed in a statement by Commodore A. Adams-Aliu for Chief of the Naval Staff.

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