The ease with which you can create images of anyone you can imagine (or, at least, anyone you have a handful of photos of), is terrifying. The big turning point, and the ethical nightmare, is the ease with which you can create near-photorealistic AI-generated art images by the hundreds without any tools other than a smartphone, an app and a few dollars. But so far, getting those to look realistic takes a lot of skill with photo editing tools along with hours, if not days, of work. Just because it’s common doesn’t make it right - in point of fact, celebrities absolutely deserve their privacy and should definitely not be made victims of non-consensual sexualized depictions. Generating saucy images of celebrities is one thing, and as illustrated by the source images we were able to find, there has long been people on the internet who are willing to collage some images together in Photoshop. We might not be prepared for the consequences. Out of the 100-image set, 11 were topless photos of higher quality (or, at least with higher stylistic consistency) than the poorly done edited topless photos the AI was given as input.ĪI is getting better at generating porn. It turns out the AI takes those Photoshopped images as permission to go wild, and it appears it disables an NSFW filter.

The second set, however, was a lot spicier than we were expecting. The first set of images was in line with the AI avatars we’ve seen Lensa generate in the past.

Another set, based on the same 15 photos, but with an additional set of five photos added of the same actor’s face, Photoshopped onto topless models.

One set, based on 15 photos of a well-known actor.

To verify that Lensa will create the images it perhaps shouldn’t, we created two sets of Lensa avatars: It seemed like the kind of thing that shouldn’t have been possible, so we decided to try it ourselves. TechCrunch has seen photo sets generated with the Lensa app that include images with breasts and nipples clearly visible in the images with faces of recognizable people. Now there’s another reason to fly the flag: As it turns out, it’s possible - and way too easy - to use the platform to generate non-consensual soft porn.

The bot received significant advertising via the Russian social media website VK, which itself features related activity across 380 pages.Lensa has been climbing the app store hit lists with its avatar-generating AI that is making artists wave the red flag.

The bot and its affiliated channels have attracted approximately 101,080 members worldwide, with 70% coming from Russia and ex-USSR countries.

In an update, Sensity said that the number of targeted individuals may be “more than 680,000.” The new figure was released after the publication of the report, after Sensity came across a new website advertising the bot.

The number of these images grew by 198% in the last 3 months.

In the original report, approximately 104,852 women have been targeted and had their personal “stripped” images shared publicly as of the end of July 2020.

Here are other key figures from the report: All the processing is performed by the hardware used by the bot on its end. The bot is said to be making the creation of deepfakes easier as it doesn’t require powerful hardware from the user such as a computer graphics processing unit. The deepfake bot uses an evolved version of a 2019 program called DeepNude. The bot network primarily operates in Russia. The bot network can only process images of women. Images created by the deepfake bots are routinely shared on Telegram networks, some of which, Sensity notes, are pedophilic in nature.

Sensity says the findings go against what they found in their 2019 State of Deepfakes report, where users primarily targeted celebrities.

The original images come from social media or sent via direct messages.

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