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.

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 models that the app developers use are available for free.

“You can create something that actually looks realistic,” said Santiago Lakatos, an analyst at Graphika, noting that previous deepfakes were often blurry.

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.

In addition to the rise in traffic, the services, some of which charge $9.99 a month, claim on their websites that they are attracting a lot of customers. “They are doing a lot of business,” Lakatos said. Describing one of the undressing apps, he said, “If you take them at their word, their website advertises that it has more than a thousand users per day.”

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.

There is currently no federal law banning the creation of deepfake pornography, though the US government does outlaw generation of these kinds of images of minors. In November, a North Carolina child psychiatrist was sentenced to 40 years in prison for using undressing apps on photos of his patients, the first prosecution of its kind under law banning deepfake generation of child sexual abuse material.

TikTok has blocked the keyword “undress,” a popular search term associated with the services, warning anyone searching for the word that it “may be associated with behavior or content that violates our guidelines,” according to the app. A TikTok representative declined to elaborate. In response to questions, Meta Platforms Inc. also began blocking key words associated with searching for undressing apps. A spokesperson declined to comment.

https://fortune.com/2023/12/08/nudify-apps-...rity-deepfakes/

photo?
i saw alot video like titanic replace face with ah lian.

Nanti ai tersalah letak batang how?

Inb4 it detected the one in the photo is actually a man so no salah, saved ur pancut.

Fap to AI

Fake news, need app name to verify

Which app

Lol.. Ni terbakar terus baju 🤣

lets do it on losma

Telegram so many la. Got dedicated channel for these content

Women should be worried, but not for the reasons of harassment, if AI can generate realistic nudes, they can go on to the next step and replace women altogether.

Population will start to dwindle

What app? I need to warn my sis to stay away from this dangerous content

I knew this since last year (deepsuke ai)

Last month Rashmika Mandanna and Kajol got kena.

More sustainable to ask Ai train you to use chat up lines so you can undress a woman. Or ask Ai to come up with cabt up lines that are sure to work one.
lol

Ham ka ling I can’t even bear myself to type it

Dont worry

AI will filter the face as well

Pm

Article so long, but no app name. Sinki reporters are better.

Yeah... What are the odds of it that they keep a database of the pics? Imagine u, the sick person that you are wanted a nude pic of your crush and now somebody else also have a pic of your crush.

I say this because I almost did it. But I respect her

This post has been edited by h4r8_kIlLeR: Dec 10 2023, 06:25 PM

Hghhhh eye scan



This post has been edited by skyblack4492: Dec 10 2023, 06:31 PM