{"id":29607,"date":"2024-04-11T18:24:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T09:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=29607"},"modified":"2024-04-11T18:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T09:24:38","slug":"pixiv-bans-all-images-indistinguishable-from-photographs-likely-to-tackle-malicious-deepfakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/pixiv-bans-all-images-indistinguishable-from-photographs-likely-to-tackle-malicious-deepfakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixiv bans all images indistinguishable from photographs, likely to tackle malicious deepfakes\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Pixiv<\/strong> posted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pixiv.net\/info.php?id=10746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announcement<\/a> regarding the revision of their Terms of Use and Guidelines on April 10. With the latest revision, the platform has banned the upload of all real-life\/photographic imagery and illustrations\/images that are equally realistic to real-life photographs. This appears to be an attempt to prevent the upload of deepfake imagery, but has triggered dissatisfaction among some users of the platform.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, the Japan-based platform for sharing and viewing illustrations, comics and fiction had made several revisions to their Creator Guidelines. These had been largely related to problems arising from the proliferation of AI generated art. <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/nongaming-news\/20230511-18820\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pixiv had introduced rules<\/a> aimed at controlling \u201cfloods\u201d of untagged AI generated art on the platform and preventing losses to their artists caused by imitation\/identity theft and unauthorized use of creators\u2019 works for AI training purposes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until recently, Pixiv had a regulation forbidding the upload of extremely realistic\/photographic imagery displaying sexual content. But with the latest update, this regulation has been broadened to include non-sexual photographic (or photographic looking) images as well, as the announcement states, \u201cPixiv prohibits the posting of images that are clearly indistinguishable from photographs, regardless of whether they have a sexual intent or not.\u201d This is likely a means to prevent AI\/deepfake images with malicious intent \u2013 such as images that violate another\u2019s personality rights or intentionally spread misinformation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">pixiv\u30a2\u30ab\u30a6\u30f3\u30c8\uff0c\u6c17\u3065\u3044\u305f\u3089\u51cd\u7d50\u3055\u308c\u3066\u3066\uff0c\u7406\u7531\u304c\u300c\u5199\u5b9f\u7684\u6295\u7a3f\u4f5c\u54c1\u306e\u554f\u984c\u300d\u3089\u3057\u3044\uff0e<br>\u6b63\u76f4\u5fc3\u5f53\u305f\u308a\u304c\u85a9\u6469\u30eb\u30d5\u30a9\u30a4\u304f\u3089\u3044\u3057\u304b\u306a\u3044\u306e\u3067\uff0c\u5f7c\u306b\u59cb\u307e\u308a\u5f7c\u306b\u7d42\u308f\u3063\u305fpixiv\u30a2\u30ab\u30a6\u30f3\u30c8\u3067\u3042\u3063\u305f\u306a\uff0c\u3068\u611f\u6168\u6df1\u3044 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aUZOA9xKnL\">pic.twitter.com\/aUZOA9xKnL<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u732b\u9ed2\u590f\u8eaf (@NatsukuPhoto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NatsukuPhoto\/status\/1767392764747260122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Pixiv\u2019s revision of regulations has sparked dissatisfaction, particularly among artists who create images with a \u201creal-life\u201d level of detail. The repercussions are not mild either, as one user who had uploaded an AI generated parodical portrait of Draco Malfoy looking like a historical samurai (seen above) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NatsukuPhoto\/status\/1767392764747260122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> that their account had been suspended because of the image.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The art platform Pixiv has revised its guidelines to tackle malicious deepfake images, but the new prohibitions are being criticized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":29612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,65],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-29607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nongaming-news","tag-ai"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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