Reporting Non-Consensual Intimate Media: An Audit Study of Deepfakes
<|reference_start|>Reporting Non-Consensual Intimate Media: An Audit Study of Deepfakes: Non-consensual intimate media (NCIM) inflicts significant harm. Currently, victim-survivors can use two mechanisms to report NCIM - as a non-consensual nudity violation or as copyright infringement. We conducted an audit study of takedown speed of NCIM reported to X (formerly Twitter) of both mechanisms. We uploaded 50 AI-generated nude images and reported half under X's "non-consensual nudity" reporting mechanism and half under its "copyright infringement" mechanism. The copyright condition resulted in successful image removal within 25 hours for all images (100% removal rate), while non-consensual nudity reports resulted in no image removal for over three weeks (0% removal rate). We stress the need for targeted legislation to regulate NCIM removal online. We also discuss ethical considerations for auditing NCIM on social platforms.<|reference_end|>
@article{qiwei2024reporting,
    title={Reporting Non-Consensual Intimate Media: An Audit Study of Deepfakes},
    author={Li Qiwei, Shihui Zhang, Andrew Timothy Kasper, Joshua Ashkinaze, Asia
  A. Eaton, Sarita Schoenebeck, Eric Gilbert},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12138},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.12138},
    primaryClass={cs.CY}
}