Stable Diffusion Abused by 4chan Users to Deepfake Celebrity Porn

August 17, 2022

An open-source image generation model, Stable Diffusion by Stability AI, was reportedly leaked on 4chan before its release date, raising concerns about safe and secure AI practices. Unfortunately, the leaked model has been exploited by some users to generate pornographic deepfakes of celebrities.

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Alleged deployer: stability-ai
Alleged developer: stability-ai, runway, laion, eleutherai, compvis-lmu
Alleged harmed parties: stability-ai, deepfaked-celebrities

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