Fake naked photos of thousands of women shared online

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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54584127

Fake naked photos of thousands of women shared online

By Patrick Clahane
BBC News
Published 59 minutes ago

Faked nude images of more than 100,000 women have been created from social media pictures and shared online, according to a new report.

Clothes are digitally removed from pictures of women by Artificial Technology (AI), and spread on the messaging app Telegram.

Some of those targeted "appeared to be underage", the report by intelligence company Sensity said.

But those running the service said it was simply "entertainment".

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[LakeArenal]

1. Gross. I suspect some men are mentally 16.

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2. some?

you give us way too much credit.

[LakeArenal]

3. So,you are into that kind of material?

Gross.

Yes, I know many men that don’t need fake child porn or any fake porn or real porn.

Gross

[unblock]

8. i was talking about men in general, and your pegging the age at 16

personally, i have less than zero interest in child porn, fake or otherwise.

regular porn, i've seen, i can take it or leave it. i'm fine with it as long as the participants know they're being filmed, are adults, and aren't coerced.

in this case it sounds like there's a lack of consent so i'm not cool with it.


but in terms of men in general, yeah, this sort of thing will find customers. a lot of customers.

[LakeArenal]

9. Sorry but you did reply "US" and the thread was about porn.

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17. your reply was about men and i'm a man, so, "us".

even if i'd like to think my mental age is at least somewhere in the vicinity of my physical age, which is well past 16....

[LakeArenal]

19. Gross men.

[SlogginThroughIt]

16. Wow calm down.

How did you not understand the self deprecation in the message? The poster didn’t say any suck thing anout being ok with it. Just that men in general can be imarure.

[LakeArenal]

21. Oh, am I not calm? Emotional even?

Don’t claim my emotional state, please.

The thread is about a lurid subject. If you want to claim a connection to that in any way, Please proceed. Self-deprecating or not.

[SlogginThroughIt]

22. I am not claiming your emotional state

I am taking charge of mine. Your response is over the top and completely rude. Nobody is making a connection to anything. Good grief.

[LakeArenal]

23. Hmmm so your opinion goes. I think you should calm down.

[SlogginThroughIt]

24. So my opinion goes?

You are the one ascribing things to people that aren’t true.

Good luck

[LakeArenal]

25. Again that's your opinion.

I’m very lucky. I say it quite often on DU.

Thanks for the good vibes.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. I worked with a woman who was using a dating site...

... and a bunch of the men just posted pics of their supposed penises according to her.


She had bought a horse a few months earlier (rented the stable), and she was on some kind of dating site for "country types" to maybe find a boyfriend also interested in horses.

[dweller]

11. 16 is spelled

ill... there, fixed it for you

✌🏻

[LakeArenal]

12. 😉

[Baclava]

4. Ah, technology, other solar systems build starships, we build better porn generators, ex machina

[zipplewrath]

14. Guetenberg

The first movable type was used to print the bible. The next use was for porn. Photography, movies, video, Polaroids, etc, the second use of most of these technologies was porn.

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15. actually, you'd be surprised at how porn has helped advance technology

early in the days of the world wide web, people were all abuzz about the concept of "ecommerce", but everyone was wary of sending their credit card information "into the ether" and many merchants were excited about the possibilities but unconvinced that it would be accepted by consumers.

then came porn and men opened their wallets as they are wont to do for such things, and they made a ton of money quickly and easily online. and suddenly merchants in other businesses and investors realized, wow, people really will submit credit card info online, this thing is going to work, and it was off to the races for online business and the boom began.

less visibly, they've also pushed demand for more storage and faster speeds as this is also important to that industry.

[Baclava]

18. Nothing surprises me anymore, I've seen Japanese anima hentai alien tentacle porn videos

[2naSalit]

5. I am glad that...

I never had any photos on any social media. And I was probably not attractive enough to get any interest from those sort of people.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. "Entertainment"?!!......

.

[PoliticAverse]

10. Even fake nudes depicting underage persons are illegal. n/t

[Polybius]

13. Fake celebrity nude sites have been around online for at least 25 years

Disgusting that they do it for underage girls.

[crickets]

20. What scum.

The administrator running the service, known only as "P" said: "I don't care that much. This is entertainment that does not carry violence.

Just because there is no physical violence does not mean there is no abuse taking place. The argument that there are "wars, diseases, many bad things that are harmful in the world" so this harmless by comparison is just -- oh, shut up. Shut. Up.

"No one will blackmail anyone with this, since the quality is unrealistic."

Maybe no one is being blackmailed yet (that we know of) but that's only because the quality is unrealistic so far. eta - Just watched the video that goes with the article. Bella Thorne was blackmailed, and released her own nudes rather than let someone release fake ones. How awful for her, or anyone, to be put in that situation.

"It's devastating, for victims of fake porn. It can completely upend their life because they feel violated and humiliated."

Likely part of the thrill and the point for some, if not all of the people drawn to the service. I use the terms 'people' and 'service' loosely in this instance. Talking about this just in terms of pornography misses part of the point -- computer generated images of fake people with fake faces is possible. Why not do that? Women have been posing for nude photos for as long as cameras have existed. Why generate a fake at all? Well, faking the face is a little more trouble, plus then the violation and humiliation element is lost, especially if customers have particular women (or children) in mind.

This is a form of identity theft, as well as targeted assault and abuse, and that really should be emphasized when devising legal protections against the activity.