A deepfake bot on Telegram is violating women by forging nudes from regular pics

A free, easy-to-use deepfake bot found on the Telegram messenger app has victimized tens of thousands of women by replacing the clothed parts of their bodies in photos with nudity. More than 100,000 of these nonconsensual sexual images have been posted publicly online, but the bot may have produced magnitudes more that haven't been traced.

The victims are mostly private individuals, women whose photos were taken off social media or pulled from a personal stash of pics, according to a research report about the bot Tuesday. Some victims were originally photographed in bathing suits. Some were wearing simple T-shirts and shorts. Some were visibly underage. All are women.

Deepfake porn isn't new. Deepfake technology artificial intelligence that makes sophisticated media forgeries has been used early and often to fabricate pornography. But this Telegram bot takes the ease and access of this technology to a new level.

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