On the followingnoon of the 19th (Mon), Vice Chairman Ahn Hyung-hwan of the Korea Communications Commission (Chairman Sang-hyeok Han, hereinfollowing, Korea Communications Commission) had an interview with Andy O’connell, Vice President of Product Policy and Strategy at Meta Platforms, Inc.
Meta provides services such as Instagram, Whatsapp, and Oculus along with Facebook, the world’s largest social media platform. In particular, ‘BlenderBot 3’ with 175 billion parameters, a new version of interactive artificial intelligence that can search the Internet and talk regarding almost any topic, was recently released as open source.
Through this meeting, Vice-Chairman Ahn introduced the digital platform user protection policy of the Korea Communications Commission, such as the transparency of the digital platform algorithm, prevention of illegal information distribution, and securing the safety of new services such as the expanded virtual world (Metaverse), and requested the cooperation of the meta side. , Vice President O’Connell explained regarding the company’s efforts to create a safe environment for use of its social network (SNS) and extended virtual world (Metaverse) services.
In particular, Meta is making efforts such as publishing a transparency report in consideration of the social impact of algorithms, operating educational programs related to metaverse content development in Korea, and implementing a safety code of conduct to encourage the responsibilities of metaverse ecosystem participants. explained that it was prepared.
Vice-Chairman Ahn expressed his gratitude for Meta’s efforts and said, “As the number of Korean users who use various and innovative services of global companies is increasing, we will cooperate more to prevent the distribution of illegal online information and digital sex crime videos promoted by the Korea Communications Commission.” I asked for it.”
