TikTok has blocked the keyword “undress,” a popular search term associated with the services.

Apps and websites that use artificial intelligence to undress women in photos are soaring in popularity, according to researchers.

In September alone, 24 million people visited undressing websites, according to the social network analysis company Graphika.

Many of these undressing, or “nudify,” services use popular social networks for marketing, according to Graphika. For instance, since the beginning of this year, the number of links advertising undressing apps increased more than 2,400% on social media, including on X and Reddit, the researchers said. The services use AI to recreate an image so that the person is nude. Many of the services only work on women.

These apps are part of a worrying trend of non-consensual pornography being developed and distributed because of advances in artificial intelligence — a type of fabricated media known as deepfake pornography. Its proliferation runs into serious legal and ethical hurdles, as the images are often taken from social media and distributed without the consent, control or knowledge of the subject.

  • SPRUNT@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    By 2030 we’ll have AR glasses with cameras, microphones, speakers, and a built in AI assistant that will digitally remove everyone’s clothing in real time.

    • Knusper@feddit.de
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      11 months ago

      Nah, definitely not real time by 2030. That’s not that far away. Maybe you could snap a single picture, have that uploaded into the cloud and sent back to you naked after half a minute or so…

        • Knusper@feddit.de
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          11 months ago

          Using such glasses? I realized, I didn’t explicitly say that in the comment you replied to…

          • MagicShel@programming.dev
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            11 months ago

            I didn’t make that connection.

            I don’t have experience with either glasses nor “nudify” apps, but I’ve used AI photo editing directly. There is nothing stopping this from being real today.

            • Knusper@feddit.de
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              11 months ago

              Yeah, I do also think, it could be built today. But I mainly just don’t expect such glasses to have enough mass market appeal that it would actually be available by 2030…

  • SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    This will get bloody. Some western woman and teenager will running the gauntlet of harassment and embarrassment. Some will even suicide because of those fake photos. In other parts of the world, where father and brothers kill family members for shame, it might be even a bloodbath. Imagine living as a woman under a patriarchate where you get in trouble when a curl of hair is visible. Now imagine there are fake nudes about you while you are surrounded by religious fanatics who have a deep routed history of shame and family honour. Look at Mia Khalifa. Woman will die because of this and the backward archaic anachronistic worldview of some insecure weak man.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Okay, so we need to get unique codes tattooed onto our genitals. That way if your nudes show up, you can always know for sure if they’re real or fake (and, importantly, who tf leaked your nudes)