Microsoft Bing now has more power to scrub AI-generated or deepfake images, a form of nonconsensual intimate image (NCII) abuse, from appearing on the search engine, as the company announces a new nonprofit partnership.

The advancement of generative AI tools has created a new problem for the internet: the proliferation of synthetic nude images resembling real people. On

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.

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,