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Child Predators Are Reportedly Generating Deepfake Nudes of Children to Extort Them

April 23, 2024

Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has reported that it has found a manual on the dark web that encourages criminals to use "nudifying" AI tools to depict children naked in order to extort victims into providing graphic content.
Alleged deployer
unknown-dark-web-users, unknown-deepfake-creators
Alleged developer
unknown-ai-developers, unknown-deepfake-creators
Alleged harmed parties
children

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/784

Data source

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