Facebook chief operating officer Mark Zuckerberg said the social network is evaluating how it should handle “deepfake” videos created with AI and high-tech tools to yield false however realistic clips.
In an interview at the Aspen ideas festival in Colorado on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said it might make sense to treat such videos otherwise from other
misinformation like false
news.
Facebook has long held that it shouldn’t decide what’s and isn’t true, leaving such calls instead to outside fact-checkers. However Zuckerberg said it’s worth asking whether or not deepfakes are a
“completely different category”
from regular false statements. He said developing
a policy regarding these
videos is “really important” as AI technology grows more refined.
The comments come as Facebook prepares to unleash details on the company’s planned oversight
board, which is meant to control speech on the 2.7 billion-member social network.
