Since March, Microsoft has removed from its Bing image search results almost 300,000 intimate images that were posted online without consent. And if you find nude or sexually explicit images or video of yourself, you can request their removal.Earlier this year, Microsoft partnered with the Stop Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse (StopNCII) organization to integrate an updated version of its PhotoDNA technology into the StopNCII platform. StopNCII allows people over the age of 18 to create a digital fingerprint, or hash, of images they don’t want posted online. That is then shared with StopNCII partners such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Threads, OnlyFans, Bumble, and Reddit. If content matching the hash is found, it will be considered for removalMicrosoft has “been piloting use of the StopNCII database to prevent this content from being returned in image search results in Bing,” Courtney Gregoire, Microsoft’s Chief Digital Safety Officer, said in a Thursday blog post. “We have taken action on 268,899 images up to the end of August [and] will continue to evaluate efforts to expand this partnership.”Going forward, Microsoft is “partnering with StopNCII to pilot a victim-centered approach to detection in Bing,” according to Gregoire, who encourages “adults concerned about the release – or potential release – of their images” to report to StopNCII.Microsoft also has its own reporting portal and will consider removal of AI-generated photos to help adults deal with AI-generated revenge porn and sites that let you produce deepfake nudes.
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