![]() These members overwhelmingly come from Russia and former-USSR countries, about 70% of those surveyed. In July, that number had swelled to at least 24,168 images, according to Sensity.Īnd while deepfake pornography has long fixated on victimizing actresses, models and other celebrity women, 70% of this bot's targets were private individuals, according to a self-reported survey of the bot's users in Sensity's report.Ībout 100,000 people are members of channels linked to the bot, Sensity found. A year ago, about 1,000 images manipulated by the bot were posted in channels in a month. The bot's promotional website suggests that as many as 700,000 images have been manipulated by the bot.Īnd the bot is growing in popularity. "But definitely we are talking about some multiplier of that 100,000." Sensity doesn't know the scope of material that is not shared, Patrini added. ![]() The 100,000-plus total number of images is limited to manipulated photos that were publicly posted and that Sensity was able to track down. While each image may not be of a unique individual, Patrini said instances of the same woman being victimized, or the same photo being manipulated repeatedly, were rare. Sensity found 104,852 images of women that were victimized by the bot and then shared publicly, as of the end of July. "They're completely open, without any login, without any passwords, on the internet. These nonconsensual sexual images have "been put out there to be found," Patrini said. The bot is also designed to make it easy for abusers to share the manipulated images by posting them in chats and other online forms. Mary Anne Franks, president, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative The bot will accept your first photo to manipulate after tapping just a few prompts. But the new bot is simpler and easier to use than the original desktop app, and it's available to anyone on Telegram. In fact, the AI powering the Telegram bot appears to be an open-source version of DeepNude's software. Both, in effect, appear to "strip" victims of what they're wearing in their pictures.ĭeepNude was a website offering Windows and Linux apps that required some level of technical savvy to operate. Like the Telegram bot, DeepNude used artificial intelligence to automatically generate nonconsensual sexual images of women in photos, replacing their photographed clothing with nudity. ![]() If this bot on Telegram sounds disturbingly familiar, a similar technology called DeepNude leaped to prominence last year, only to become so popular in a single day, after it was exposed in a news article, that its programmer shut it down. The term deepfake is used most often with videos, but deepfakes can refer to any so-called "synthetic" media produced by deep machine learning, including pornographic still photos. Using a kind of artificial intelligence known as neural networks, deepfake tech can generate media forgeries that make people appear to be doing or saying things they never did. Deepfake technology is like a high-speed Photoshop conveyor belt on steroids.
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