FAKED nude images of over 100,000 women and underage girls have been created by sick software and shared online, according to a new report.
Clothed images of completely unaware women and girls can be taken from social media and then digitally altered with artificial intelligence so they look naked.
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These images are reportedly being spread on messaging app Telegram.
A report by intelligence company Sensity highlighted the issue and confirmed that some of the people in the images appear to be underage.
Sensity says the tech being used is a “deepfake bot”.
These bots can create computer generated and often realistic looking content that is based on a real life image.
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They have been used in the past to create fake pornographic videos of celebrities.
Sensity’s chief executive Giorgio Patrini has said anyone with a public social media account could become a target and this shift away from celebrities to the public is fairly new.
He explained in the report: “Compared to similar underground tools, the bot dramatically increases accessibility by providing a free and simple user interface that functions on smartphones as well as traditional computers.
“To ‘strip’ an image, users simply upload a photo of a target to the bot and receive the processed image after a short generation process.”
The bot can be found within a Telegram private messaging channel.
It’s apparently free to use and pervs just need to send their desired image to it.
They can then share the faked nude image with whoever they like.
Around 70% of images are thought to have been taken from social media accounts.
According to the BBC, the person in charge of the service, simply called “P”, said: “I don’t care that much. This is entertainment that does not carry violence.
“No one will blackmail anyone with this, since the quality is unrealistic.”
He also claimed that users who upload an image of anyone who appears underage are blocked.
Sensity said between July 2019 and 2020 around 104,852 women were targeted with the sick clothes removing software and had their faked nude images shared publicly.
The report states that some users were “primarily using the bot to generate and share paedophilic content.”
The bot has reportedly been significantly advertised on Russian social media app VK.
Sensity has shared its shocking findings with Telegram and VK.
It is yet to receive a response.
What is revenge porn?
The UK Government says…
“Revenge Porn is the sharing of private, sexual materials, either photos or videos, of another person without their consent and with the purpose of causing embarrassment or distress.
“The images are sometimes accompanied by personal information about the subject, including their full name, address and links to social media profiles.
“The offence applies both online and offline and to images shared electronically in a more traditional way, so includes the uploading of images on the internet, sharing by text and e-mail, or showing someone a physical or electronic image.
“Under the new offence, private materials are those showing anything not usually seen in public.
“Sexual material not only covers images that show the pubic region, but anything that a reasonable person would consider to be sexual so this could be a picture of someone who is engaged in sexual behaviour or posing in a sexually provocative way.”
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