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WhatsApp Introduces Helpline in India to Diminish AI-Generated Misinformation, Deepfakes

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February 19, 2024
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WhatsApp Introduces Helpline in India to Diminish AI-Generated Misinformation, Deepfakes
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WhatsApp will quickly get an necessary security function that can assist customers in India keep away from misinformation, particularly these generated by synthetic intelligence (AI), and deepfakes. Meta and the Misinformation Combat Alliance (MCA) introduced on Monday that they’ll quickly launch a helpline on WhatsApp the place customers will be capable to report all such cases. The improvement comes simply days after 20 main tech companies, together with Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, pledged to work collectively to detect and counter dangerous AI content material forward of world elections in 2024.

MCA, a cross-industry collaborative organisation centered on eliminating misinformation, partnered with Meta to work on this new security function. WhatsApp Helpline will probably be a chatbot the place any person can simply attain out and report a message that’s spreading misinformation or is a deepfake. Deepfakes are AI-generated content material, primarily in picture or video format, that both impersonates one other individual or manipulates objects and info to mislead the viewers. Often, such content material is made to be hyperrealistic and may instil paranoia and frenzy in giant teams.

The MCA will arrange a central ‘deepfake evaluation unit’ that can work intently with its fact-checking member organisations and can assess and confirm every reported message. If the reported content material is discovered to be misinformation or AI-generated deepfake, will probably be debunked, and the messages could be deleted. The chatbot will probably be made accessible in English and three regional Indian languages, together with Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu.

As per the assertion, the main target of the initiative is to implement a four-pillar method of detection, prevention, reporting, and driving consciousness. The WhatsApp Helpline is predicted to enhance accessibility to dependable data and supply a spot to confirm messages. The function is claimed to be accessible by March 2024.

Meta additionally runs a number of fact-checking programmes in India and has partnered with 11 impartial businesses devoted to the duty and serving to customers forestall the unfold of misinformation on its platforms. On WhatsApp, customers already had the choice to flag a message to greater than 50 IFCN (International Fact-Checking Network) member organisations to confirm data. Further, many fact-checking businesses run their WhatsApp Channels that customers can observe to seek out verified and trusted data well timed. The prompt messaging platform additionally limits the unfold of misinformation by retaining an higher ceiling on forwarded messages.


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