AI 'Nudify' Apps Used as Tools for Blackmail and Extortion
September 9, 2024
AI 'nudify' apps are being used to generate hyperrealistic non-consensual nude photos of individuals, which are then exploited for extortion and harassment. These apps use generative AI to remove clothing from images and create convincing fakes, often distributed on platforms like Telegram. Victims are threatened or shamed using these AI-generated images, with little recourse for removal or legal action.
- Alleged deployer
- unknown-deepfake-creators, extortionists
- Alleged developer
- unknown-deepfake-creators
- Alleged harmed parties
- women-in-india, women, general-public
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/782
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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