Perhaps you have heard of Telegram (The security-centric messenger) bots before, perhaps you haven't...
Well, Telegram bots are AI-inspired apps or virtual "Robots" that works in Telegram that serve many purposes on the Messenger app: send relevant information about the weather or useful news articles, schedule reminders, play tunes, create to-do lists, crypto faucets and etc.,
Well, an open-source, user-friendly deepfake bot has been found to be victimizing seemingly hundreds of thousands of women by replacing the clothed parts of their bodies, in a photo with nudity. More than 100,000 of these non-consensual sexual images have been published publicly online.
More than 100,000 non-consensual sexual images of 10,000 women and some under-aged girls have been shared online by the bot user between the period of July 2019 and 2020.
Those victims are mostly female private individuals, whose photos were taken off social media or pulled from a personal stash of pics. Some victims had originally been photographed in bathing suits or underwear. Some were wearing simple T-shirts and shorts. Some were visibly underage. All are women. Sick bastards...
Deep fakes are computer-generated and often very realistic images and videos (similar to CGI) that are produced from a real world template. Deep fakes are named that way because they were made using deep machine learning by some form of an artificial intelligence (AI), to create fake images and videos, which it is mostly used in the manipulation of elections, in pornography and to promote misinformation.
Now, Deepfake porn is not a new trend, there were a lot of instances that it was widely used to create scandalous pictures of celebrities. While Deepfake technology and other artificial intelligence that produces sophisticated media forgeries has been used since the early 20th century to fabricate pornography, this Telegram bot takes the ease and access of this technology to whole a new level.
This telegram bot or tool, called DeepNude that was created last year, and the deep fakes are made by feeding a computer an algorithm, or set of instructions, as well as lots of images and audio of the target person.The computer program then learns how to mimic the person's facial expressions, mannerisms, voice and inflections. With sufficient video and audio of someone, it can combine a fake video of a person with fake audio and get them to say anything you want. At this simpler level it can also be used to remove clothing from a photo of a person fully dressed or make someone appear to be in a place they shouldn't. It is often described as a'photoshop on steroids' by experts.
And oh yeah, there is this
So be careful ladies.
~Balans~
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