Women in AI: Dr. Rebecca Portnoff is protecting children from harmful deepfakes | TechCrunch
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"During my senior year at Princeton, as I was contemplating what to do after graduation, my sister recommended I read 'Half the Sky' by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, which introduced me to the topic of child sexual abuse," she told TechCrunch, saying the book inspired her to study how to make a difference in this space. She went on to write her doctorate dissertation focusing especially on using machine learning and AI in this space.
"It was a tremendous lift, collaboratively defining principles and mitigations to prevent generative models from producing abuse material, make such material more reliably detected, and prevent the distribution of those models, services, and apps that are used to produce this abuse material, then aligning industry leaders to commit to those standards," she recalled. She said she met many people.
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