Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 16 April 2024
Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth
Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Dualta ? Broin:
The Senator mentioned philosophy. In our transparency centre, we describe our philosophy in respect of the values we employ when we are thinking about the safety of the platform and the privacy of the users.
It might be interesting to the Senator to know we follow the United Nations guidance for businesses so we have an annual human rights report which goes through the risks in our business from a human rights perspective and how we are thinking about and mitigating those. I am happy to share links to those reports afterwards.
On being proactive, there are two things. In addition to taking down content as rapidly as possible, there is something we are doing to impact on the behaviour of users. If a user posts a comment on Instagram, for example, which looks like it could be abusive or against community standards, he or she will be served with an interstitial asking if they are sure they want to post it because it looks like it might violate community standards. That is successful in trying to not have abusive content put up in the first place. Second, Stop Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse, StopNCII, and Take it Down are two successful examples of preventing abusive content being uploaded. StopNCII allows users who think they are at risk of a previous partner or somebody else sharing intimate images of them to upload those images to the service. That means those images cannot be uploaded to our services. Those are two examples of where we are stop it getting it on the platform in the first place.
Mr. Miles might talk about NCMEC.