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Polish billionaire ‘Locker King’ weighs authorized motion in opposition to Meta over deepfake adverts

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Editorial Board Published August 14, 2024
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Polish billionaire Rafal Brzoska is on a campaign to carry Meta Platforms Inc. accountable for faux photos and fraudulent commercials spreading on its social-networking apps.

Brzoska, who earned the nickname “Locker King” because the founder and chief government officer of parcel locker firm InPost SA, gained an injunction final week briefly banning Meta from publishing faux adverts utilizing the likeness of him and his spouse in Poland.

However he mentioned the Polish Private Knowledge Safety Workplace’s three-month ban hasn’t stopped new bogus photos of him and his partner Omena Mensah, an area tv celeb, from surfacing. Brzoska is now ready on Eire’s Knowledge Safety Fee, which oversees Fb’s European headquarters in Dublin, to impose an identical one. And he’s weighing authorized motion.

“It will be the long battle, and I want to find out how big are revenues from ads that use deepfakes for fraudulent purposes,” Brzoska mentioned in an interview. He added he desires to persuade different well-known Poles to take motion to bolster the case and stress Meta to raised differentiate fakes from legit content material.

Meta is going through growing stress all over the world to cease the proliferation of scams that use generative synthetic intelligence instruments and the likenesses of well-known folks to draw victims. A US decide this 12 months dominated that Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest might sue the Fb and Instagram mother or father over the usage of his picture to fraudulently endorse cryptocurrency merchandise regardless of a authorized protect that protects social media corporations from being held responsible for person content material. 

A Meta spokesperson mentioned the corporate removes false content material when it’s discovered and is assessing the Polish regulator’s resolution. 

Brzoska referred to as the ban the primary such transfer within the European Union based mostly on the bloc’s knowledge safety guidelines. The businessman mentioned the faux adverts, which generally embrace false details about the couple, could negatively affect his household’s charity actions. 

“I’m currently spending plenty of time unwinding deepfakes,” he mentioned. “Someone should be responsible for propagation of criminal actions.”

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