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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 nud3. Many of the services only work on women.
These apps are part of a worrying trend of non-consensual pr0nography being developed and distributed because of advances in artificial intelligence — a type of fabricated media known as deepfake pr0nography. 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.
The rise in popularity corresponds to the release of several open source diffusion models, or artificial intelligence that can create images that are far superior to those created just a few years ago, Graphika said. Because they are open source, the apps are available for free, adding to their appeal, said Santiago Lakatos, an analyst at Graphika.
“You can create something that actually looks realistic,” Lakatos said, noting that previous deepfakes were often blurry.
One image posted to X advertising an undressing app used language that suggests customers could create nud3 images and then send them to the person whose image was digitally undressed, inciting harassment. One of the apps, meanwhile, has paid for sponsored content on Google’s YouTube, and appears first when searching with the word “nudify.”
A Google spokesperson said the company doesn’t allow ads “that contain s3xually explicit content. We’ve reviewed the ads in question and are removing those that violate our policies.” Neither X nor Reddit responded to requests for comment.
Non-consensual pr0nography of public figures has long been a scourge of the internet, but privacy experts are growing concerned that advances in AI technology have made deepfake software easier and more effective.
“We are seeing more and more of this being done by ordinary people with ordinary targets,” said Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “You see it among high school children and people who are in college.”
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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 nud3. Many of the services only work on women.
These apps are part of a worrying trend of non-consensual pr0nography being developed and distributed because of advances in artificial intelligence — a type of fabricated media known as deepfake pr0nography. 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.
The rise in popularity corresponds to the release of several open source diffusion models, or artificial intelligence that can create images that are far superior to those created just a few years ago, Graphika said. Because they are open source, the apps are available for free, adding to their appeal, said Santiago Lakatos, an analyst at Graphika.
“You can create something that actually looks realistic,” Lakatos said, noting that previous deepfakes were often blurry.
One image posted to X advertising an undressing app used language that suggests customers could create nud3 images and then send them to the person whose image was digitally undressed, inciting harassment. One of the apps, meanwhile, has paid for sponsored content on Google’s YouTube, and appears first when searching with the word “nudify.”
A Google spokesperson said the company doesn’t allow ads “that contain s3xually explicit content. We’ve reviewed the ads in question and are removing those that violate our policies.” Neither X nor Reddit responded to requests for comment.
Non-consensual pr0nography of public figures has long been a scourge of the internet, but privacy experts are growing concerned that advances in AI technology have made deepfake software easier and more effective.
“We are seeing more and more of this being done by ordinary people with ordinary targets,” said Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “You see it among high school children and people who are in college.”
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‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity
It’s part of a worrying trend of non-consensual “deepfake” pornography being developed and distributed because of advances in artificial intelligence.
