Neither Sensity's report nor this article are disclosing the name of the bot, to avoid amplifying it. Even women out walking could be victimized if surreptitiously snapped by the wrong stranger.Īnd in one of the most disturbing forms of abuse with this bot, photographs of children have been uploaded to the bot's AI, automatically manipulated to sexualize the child and then shared publicly. With this Telegam bot, any woman who's ever posted a selfie of herself from the waist up could be a potential victim.
"It also makes the ability to avoid this kind of abuse much more difficult." It's much more easy for somebody without the technical knowledge to make one," said Mary Anne Franks, a law professor at the University of Miami and president of the online-abuse nonprofit Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. "The deepfake phenomenon is even more alarming because it doesn't look Photoshopped. But this Telegram bot takes the ease and access of this technology to a new level.Ī Sensity diagram of how nonconsensual sexual images are created and shared by the Telegram bot.īut only in the last few years has deepfake tech intensified the threat of manipulated sexual media, posing frightening implications for what may come. Deepfake technology - artificial intelligence that makes sophisticated media forgeries - has been used early and often to fabricate pornography. Some were wearing simple T-shirts and shorts. Some victims had originally been photographed in bathing suits or underwear. The victims are mostly private individuals, women whose photos were taken off social media or pulled from a personal stash of pics, according to a research report about the bot Tuesday, which traced more than 100,000 publicly posted images of victims of this bot. Those numbers couldn't be independently verified. More than 100,000 of these nonconsensual sexual images have been posted publicly online, but the bot has produced hundreds of thousands more that haven't been traced.Ī website promoting the bot claimed that more than 700,000 images of women have been manipulated to replace their clothing with nudity, as of Thursday, and that more than 100,000 abusers have uploaded images to the bot. A free, easy-to-use deepfake bot found on the Telegram messenger app has victimized seemingly hundreds of thousands of women by replacing the clothed parts of their bodies in photos with nudity.
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