An artificial intelligence service uninhibitedly accessible on the Web has been utilized to transform more than 100,000 women’s pictures into naked photographs without the women’s knowledge or consent, setting off feelings of dread of another influx of harming “deepfakes” that could be utilized for harassment or blackmail.
Users of the automated service can anonymously present a photograph of a dressed woman and get a modified version with the garments removed. The AI innovation, trained on huge databases of actual nude photographs, can create fakes with apparently similar precision, coordinating skin tone and swapping in breasts and genitalia where clothes once were.
In June of 2019, Vice revealed the presence of a disturbing application that used AI to “undress” women. Called DeepNude, it permitted clients to upload a photograph of a dressed lady for $50 and get back a photograph of her seemingly naked. In fact, the product was utilizing generative adversarial networks, the algorithm behind deepfakes, to swap the women’s clothes for exceptionally realistic nude bodies. The more insufficiently clad the person is the victim, the better. It didn’t take a shot at men.
Within 24 hours, the Vice article had propelled such a backlash that the makers of the application immediately brought it down. The DeepNude Twitter account declared that no different versions would be delivered, and nobody else would gain access to the innovation.
Sensity is an intelligence company that tracks and uncovers deepfakes and different types of “malicious visual media,” as indicated by its site. In a 12-page report distributed for the current month, the organization illustrated how another “deepfake ecosystem” developed on Telegram dependent on an “AI-powered bot that permits clients to photo-realistically ‘strip naked’ clothed images of women.”
The bot is free to use on cell phones and computers and is effectively available by means of Telegram, a texting application created in 2013 that guarantees secure messaging utilizing end-to-end encryption. Telegram is banned in Russia, China and Iran.
“Having a social media account with public photographs is sufficient for anybody to turn into a target,” Giorgio Patrini, CEO and chief scientist at Sensity, told the BBC.
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