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.
This is such a weird mentality and so bizarre that it’s common within a certain set of people. You’re going to hide in a darkened room refusing to interact with the world and not sharing anything because you’re scared someone will make an image of you?
Oh gosh a greedy person stole my likeness because they wanted what I have! What ever will I do?!?!
Your likeness isn’t special or magical, it’s not going to grant people special psychic power over you or allow someone else to claim your rewards in the afterlife, it’s just a picture in a sea of a billion pictures - so what?
Hide? No, share your photos with people you know and care about.
We’re in a thread talking about photos being taken from public postings, like Facebook, Instagram, and Xitter, and using those photos with AI to make porn. That’s the reason not to share your shit publicly. Nobody has said anything remotely like your likeness is magical or grants psychic power.