The Biggest Deepfake Abuse Site Is Growing in Disturbing Ways

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A website is digitally removing clothing from non-nude photos to create nonconsensual pornographic deepfakes. Researchers say its output is “hyper-realistic”.

that generates “nude” images of women using artificial intelligence is spreading its murky tentacles across the web—spawning look-alike services through partner agreements and recruiting new users through a referral system. The expansion efforts have allowed the service to proliferate despite bans placed on its payment infrastructure.

In recent months the website has expanded its services, earning its creator potentially thousands of dollars. The website has made its algorithms available to “partners” through access to its APIs; and two spin-off websites have been created by other people. The original website has been previously reported on, but the extent of its partner programs has not.

This approach does seem to have helped the website avoid being taken offline. According to data from digital intelligence platform Similarweb, the site had more than 50 million visits between January and the end of October this year, making it the biggest of its kind. “Hundreds of thousands” of images have been uploaded on a single day, the creator has claimed on the website. Its audience peaked in August with 6.92 million views, according to SimilarWeb’s data.

Recruiting partners is not the only way the website has sustained itself. Hundreds of links for the website’s referral program—where people receive free image-generation tokens every time someone clicks—are also being shared on Twitter, YouTube, Telegram, and specialized pornographic deepfake forums.

 

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Whelp the site just grew a lil more🤦🏿‍♂️🥲

Are deepfakes necessary when people can be programmed to support authoritarianism so easily? (Honestly just point at some brown faces)

Maybe, when there's nudes out there of literally everyone, no one will really care anymore. It doesn't make it ok, but at least it may end the victim blaming that's going on everytime. So you have a naked body? Big deal.

Heads up to all the people who 'SHARE' family photos on Social Media

surprise!

They either going to make me well endowed or Ill have to call them out via live stream

Although this is really, really, really, really awful, on the not entirely negative side, now there is at least some credibility to the claim that the images are fake.

Pathetic.

Great... so another way to harass people developed. 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

aj_mclean i thought your video was weird then see this and still stunned by it but glad they consent to it

Does it let you upload your own pictures? I want to see what I look like nude.

Because there’s not already enough porn?

I’d like to see them try to 🤌🏽 photoshop some 🍮stretchmarks 🍭and smooth out hella 🧁cellulite - they would be working overtime 👍🏼venusofwillendorf 😂

As elonmusk tegmark and others have pointed out before, one wouldn’t want anyone being able to get their hands on nuclear weapons, and AI is much more dangerous, but as usual, public officials are completely clueless about it.

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this is really bad and scary

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