Purported Deepfake Technology Was Reportedly Used to Generate Naked Pictures of Underage Girls in Spanish Town

September 17, 2023

In a concerning incident, an AI application was reportedly employed to digitally manipulate photos of underage girls in Almendralejo, Spain, causing them to appear nude. This disturbing act ignited an investigation and highlighted the need for safeguarding digital privacy and preventing such content from spreading on pornographic sites. **For those interested in shaping safe and secure AI practices, JOIN US (HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM) where we Govern such incidents to establish guardrails.**

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Alleged deployer
unnamed-perpetrators-in-almendralejo
Alleged developer
unknown-deepfake-technology-developers, unknown-image-generator-developers
Alleged harmed parties
unnamed-victims-in-almendralejo, epistemic-integrity

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/610

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

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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