Apps and websites that use artificial intelligence to undress women in photos are soaring in popularity, according to researchers.
In September alone, 24 million people visited undressing websites, according to the social network analysis company Graphika.
Many of these undressing, or “nudify,” services use popular social networks for marketing, according to Graphika. For instance, since the beginning of this year, the number of links advertising undressing apps increased more than 2,400% on social media, including on X and Reddit, the researchers said. The services use AI to recreate an image so that the person is nude. Many of the services only work on women.
These apps are part of a worrying trend of non-consensual pornography being developed and distributed because of advances in artificial intelligence — a type of fabricated media known as deepfake pornography. Its proliferation runs into serious legal and ethical hurdles, as the images are often taken from social media and distributed without the consent, control or knowledge of the subject.
Pandora’s Box is already opened, unfortunately. The Streisand Effect is only going to make this worse.
The only real options for response for a celebrity or public figure is 1) say nothing or 2) make light of it by saying something like, “I’m flattered, they made me look better than I do!”
I’d imagine this will also be very problematic for non-celebrities from all sorts of backgrounds as well. The harassment potential is very concerning.
Agreed. Just need to teach our kids that it literally isn’t the end of the world and how to deal with it.
All that’s going to do is give abusers power over others.
What really needs to happen is for that kind of tech, and more importantly using any software, AI or not, to do such a thing, to be outlawed. It shouldn’t be protected under the first amendment.
Unfortunately, that isn’t going to do much.
It would prevent a child in school from creating such an image and openly sharing it because it would be illegal.
Yes. Because kids never do anything illegal.
And I certainly wouldn’t know anything about the misuse of fireworks, rocket engines or household chemicals which mysteriously happened in my hometown when I was young.Yes, by all means, it should be illegal to make and distribute these sorts of images. But, the tech is out there, it’s going to happen. We’re going to need to teach children the mental resilience to deal with these image when they happen. And try to make it much less of a big deal.
Or Taylor Swift go brrr. Don’t get me wrong, I support her actions.
This article seems to imply that this cat can go back in the bag. I’m not at all sure about that.
If they put the cat in the bag I can just use one of these handy apps to make the bag disappear again.
Yet another way to free the pussy.
It can see nude cats too?!
They’ll just make it illegal to do that lol. Realistically tho what else are we supposed to do, the technology exists. If you were dedicated enough you could already do this with Photoshop. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an example of an artist ruining someones reputation by painting them in a compromising way centuries ago
This will get bloody. Some western woman and teenager will running the gauntlet of harassment and embarrassment. Some will even suicide because of those fake photos. In other parts of the world, where father and brothers kill family members for shame, it might be even a bloodbath. Imagine living as a woman under a patriarchate where you get in trouble when a curl of hair is visible. Now imagine there are fake nudes about you while you are surrounded by religious fanatics who have a deep routed history of shame and family honour. Look at Mia Khalifa. Woman will die because of this and the backward archaic anachronistic worldview of some insecure weak man.
On the plus side, this will be the death knell for those sorts of extreme cultures. It’ll be impossible for them to survive and still have these kinds of hangups in a world where such mortal offences are present everywhere you look.
It’ll be a nasty path getting there, unfortunately.
Okay, so we need to get unique codes tattooed onto our genitals. That way if your nudes show up, you can always know for sure if they’re real or fake (and, importantly, who tf leaked your nudes)
Public key in a pubic place?
Pubic key, clearly.
Or who knows, maybe nudity will cease to be taboo when everyone can see everyone else naked anyway.
So basically how it is outside of America?
Pubic keys
How would you know who did it with such a code?
Also it only works once since you need to reveal the true code to dispute the picture
Why would you willingly forfeit plausible deniability?
Disgusting! Where are people downloading this app from so that I can avoid the website or that app store?
Models from CivitAi, and Automatic1111/ComfyUI for front-end. The rest is just a learning curve for all the features and prompting.
(Immediately downloads, tries it on selfie)
I actually thought about this. I even turned on the VPN and googled these sites. NGL I thought about people I know. Then I thought that as soon as I uploaded my or their images, and did this, both the original and anything generated are out there, and can never be pulled back. And who knows where they might pop up, or what they might be turned into? And then I got kinda scared, and closed that shit out.
Another day another puritan panic
Yes we should ban open source and consumer gfx cards and everything else to stop the possibility that someone might have a sexual thought -in fact all humans should be blinded at birth to avoid this!
Won’t someone think of the children!!!
It’ll work in their favour eventually. There won’t be any more revenge porn because it can just be dismissed as fake immediately.
Nowhere in the article did it mention what the apps were. I’d just like to know what they are so I can avoid them.
Dude… this isn’t the place for attempted humor.
Simps, fucking things up for everyone as usual.
This panic over fake porn is the wrong response. In fact, encourage it, make it so ubiquitous that there is always fake porn of everyone, everywhere and nobody gives two shits about nude leaks or revenge porn any more.
Anybody brave enough to check this guy’s hard drive?
By 2030 we’ll have AR glasses with cameras, microphones, speakers, and a built in AI assistant that will digitally remove everyone’s clothing in real time.
Shit, by 2030 we’ll have premium AR avatars, so you can make sure your AI nudes look good.
