Senior Advocate Jayant Mehta appeared for Microsoft today and said that the single-judge had relied on the tool used by Meta (Facebook) to remove such content. However, he said, there is a difference between Meta and Bing (Microsoft’s search engine) because unlike Meta, Bing does not host any content.
“I can’t do it. I am Bing. Given the technology that exists today, we can’t do it…The directions [issued by the single-judge] overstep the regulatory framework. So long as we are given the URLs, we can take it down, but when the order says you [search engines] go looking for this image all over the database and then remove it, it is not possible,” Mehta said.
He further added that even Artificial Intelligence (AI) cannot be deployed to carry out the directions, because it will not be possible for the AI tools to distinguish between consensual and non-consensual images.
Source: Barandbench
