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Leonardo AI's Platform Alleged to Have Been Used for Creating Nonconsensual Celebrity Deepfakes

March 26, 2024

Sydney-based startup Leonardo AI's text-to-image generator was alleged to have been exploited to create nonconsensual sexual images of celebrities, bypassing content moderation systems with user-shared prompts.
Alleged deployer
telegram-community-users, reddit-users, leonardo-ai-users
Alleged developer
leonardo-ai
Alleged harmed parties
public-figures, celebrities

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/661

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