X Will Stop Paying People for Sharing Unlabeled AI-Generated War Footage

[highplainsdem]

Source: 404 Media

X said it will temporarily demonetize accounts that share AI-generated war footage without a label. The decision comes days after the US and Israel launched airstrikes in Iran and AI-slop war footage flooded social media timelines across the internet.

“Today we are revising our Creator Revenue Sharing policies to maintain authenticity of content on Timeline and prevent manipulation of the program. During times of war, it is critical that people have access to authentic information on the ground. With today’s AI technologies, it is trivial to create content that can mislead people,” Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, said in a post on X.

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“Starting now, users who post AI-generated videos of an armed conflict—without adding a disclosure that it was made with AI—will be suspended from Creator Revenue Sharing for 90 days. Subsequent violations will result in a permanent suspension from the program,” he added. “This will be flagged to us by any post with a Community Note or if the content contains meta data (or other signals) from generative AI tools. We will continue to refine our policies and product to ensure X can be trusted during these critical moments.”

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The way X is handling the problem gives the game away. According to Bier, the site will rely on the community to police itself and the punishment is a 90 day suspension not from the site but from the monetization program.

Read more: https://www.404media.co/x-will-stop-paying-people-for-sharing-unlabeled-ai-generated-war-footage/

[genxlib]

1. This assumes the motivation is monetary to act as a deterent.

In some cases I am sure it is.

In other cases, the rah-rah cheerleading and the misinformation is the motivation.

They will do it for free or get paid from elsewhere.

[William Seger]

2. True, it's not a complete solution, but it's better than doing nothing. YouTube needs that same policy.