A Tool That Creates Deepfake Nudes Is Perfectly Fine To Advertise On Twitter…. WTF???

Elon Musk can’t get big name companies to advertise on Twitter. But apparently he’s allowing someone who has some sort of tool to create deepfake nudes to advertise on Twitter:

An app called DeepNudeAI, which allows users to upload real photos of women and then creates a fake AI generated image of them nude is currently advertising on X, formerly known as Twitter. The service is being promoted by an X user who goes by Марина and the handle @Marina247016199.

The app is part of new series of privacy invasion AI apps called “undressing apps” that create deep-faked nudes. In the new reality of AI, anything from speech to body can be faked in a strikingly realistic way, capable of fooling everyone but the most savvy or trained eyes. 

Undressing apps allow users to customize the nude they receive, including changing the age of the victim in the image to make them look underaged.

The potential use of deep-faked nudes for blackmail and reputation destruction represents a new disturbing trend in an AI world that is already a new frontier of antisocial behavior. It represents a disturbing invasion of privacy without legal precedent. And this particular advertisement appears to view blackmailing women as the number one use case of the application.

Users who have seen this ad are disgusted that it exists. And rightly so. But it gets worse. Apparently Twitter is perfectly fine with this sort of tool being advertised on the platform:

An account on X called @MattTalksBall apparently reported the original account posting the DeepNudeAI ad and received a note that the ad hadn’t broken X’s safety policies. Confirming that invasion of privacy apps used for blackmailing women are not a violation of X standards and apparently completely free to advertise on X.

Even by Elon’s already insanely low standards, this is a new low. The fact that anyone is okay with a tool that can make lives miserable for innocent people being advertised on Twitter or anywhere else is reprehensible. Clearly Elon either doesn’t care, or he is so desperate for money that any amount of morality has been deleted from his conscience. Either way, it’s yet another reason why everyone should abandon Twitter.

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