Staff, End Times Headline, 12/23
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.
One image posted to X advertising an undressing app used language that suggests customers could create nude 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 sexually 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 pornography 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.”
Many victims never find out about the images, but even those who do may struggle to get law enforcement to investigate or to find funds to pursue legal action, Galperin said.
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DAYS OF LOT: ‘Nudify’ apps that use AI to ‘Undress’ women in photos are soaring in popularity
These apps are not undressing women…
seriously… being able to imagine a body underneath clothing is not undressing anyone.
where are the tattoos, the birthmarks, the innie or outie belly button, etc
if you want to think a not real representation of your body created without actually seeing your body IS the same as your body – your going to have a lot of freaking problems in the world
Whether it is or is not a real representation of a body is beside the point. The point is this: if our bodies, whether real or not, can be used as a commodity on the meat-market internet for use by salacious appetites then real people are of no more value than a piece of meat. Your immoral attitude is disgusting.
I wonder if these nudify apps present the subjects in a glamorized way. Because if not, nearly all subjects are likely to be physically unattractive, even repulsive, such that they’re better seen dressed rather than undressed.
That’s real life, not Hollywood. Even porno will only use attractive people, never the everyday folks, just like Hollywood does.