Based on a pilot that ran through August, Microsoft's new system harnesses StopNCII's database to immediately flag intimate images and prevent them being surfaced in Bing results. Microsoft says it has already "taken action" on 268,000 explicit images.

Microsoft partners with StopNCII to help people remove explicit images from Bing, whether they're real or AI. It's already taken action on 268,899 such images since a pilot begin earlier this year.

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Microsoft announced it has partnered with StopNCII to help remove non-consensual intimate images — including deepfakes — from its Bing search engine. When a victim opens a "case" with StopNCII, the database creates a digital fingerprint,