It'll be back. Here's an example of what people were seeing. The clothed image is real. The torso underneath it is entirely computer generated.
Not hard to see the potential for problems here.
Posted on 06/27/2019 10:18:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
In 2019, you don’t have to be just afraid of hackers who may leak your closely guarded private photos. A newly developed artificial neural network only needs to be fed a normal picture to replace your clothes with what's under them.
An anonymous ‘technology enthusiast’ has created an app which is able to undress a fully clothed person within a couple of clicks, triggering concerns over the ethics of such technology and non-consensual photo sharing.
The app in question is called DeepNude – a play on the new term deepfake – an AI-assisted technology that superimposes faces onto other bodies in both photos and videos, potentially allowing users to create revenge porn, for example.
The website where one can download the app was launched in late March, according to the Twitter account of the enigmatic creator. The app is available in two versions, premium and free.
According to a report by Vice, one does not have to be tech-savvy to use this sexually oriented, automated version of Photoshop. Curious users only have to upload the photo they want to “undress”, click on the button and wait some 30 second until the AI processes it.
Horrifying deepfake app called DeepNude realistically removes the clothing of any woman with a single click. It costs $50 and only works on women. (The black bars were added after using the app.) pic.twitter.com/5KS36FPTqZ — Mike Sington (@MikeSington) 27 июня 2019 г.
DeepNude appears to work only with high-resolution photos of women facing the camera directly, swapping their clothes for a nude body, regardless of what they are wearing. Tests with images of men, cartoon characters or people photographed from unnatural angles and/or in low resolution or poor lighting conditions are said to produce varying results, from somewhat comical to outright disgusting.
Furthermore, according to screenshots taken by Vice contributors, the free version produces an image with a huge dartboard-like watermark. If upgraded to premium for $50, DeepNude is able to produce uncensored photos with a clearly visible ‘Fake’ inscription.
The app currently runs on Windows 10 and Linux, while a Mac version is in the works.
The creator, who requested to be identified as Alberto, told Vice that his brainchild uses an algorithm called the Conditional Adversarial Network (cGAN), which was trained to generate naked images after learning from a dataset of more than 10,000 nude photos of women.
"I'm not a voyeur, I'm a technology enthusiast,” he was quoted as saying. “Continuing to improve the algorithm. Recently, also due to previous failures (other startups) and economic problems, I asked myself if I could have an economic return from this algorithm. That's why I created DeepNude."
"This is absolutely terrifying," said Katelyn Bowden, founder and CEO of non-profit Badass, which fights revenge porn and image abuse. "Now anyone could find themselves a victim of revenge porn, without ever having taken a nude photo. This tech should not be available to the public."
Danielle Citron, professor of law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, called the technology an “invasion of sexual privacy.”
But the creator insisted that DeepNude doesn't make much of a difference and was no more harmful than Photoshop, which effectively just takes more time to achieve the same results.
Shortly after the initial report in Vice, DeepNude’s Twitter said the yet-unstable website was down due to an unexpected increase in traffic. It was unavailable as of the time of writing.
Hi! DeepNude is offline. Why? Because we did not expect these visits and our servers need reinforcement. We are a small team. We need to fix some bugs and catch our breath. We are working to make DeepNude stable and working. We will be back online soon in a few days. — deepnudeapp (@deepnudeapp) 27 июня 2019 г.
"It wasn't me! I was dressed! Somebody faked that picture! And THAT one, too!"
-PJ
But what happens if it’s a transgender?
Then the computer locks up and cries..............
LOL
The end of “The proof is in the picture!” and “Photos don’t lie!” What will happen at the next ‘Borking’? Who will ask the software equivalent of “Is it real or is it Memorex?”
Who you gonna believe?
Me or your lyin’ eyes?................
Best...GIF...Ever!
Ann-Margret! Yowzah!
It'll be back. Here's an example of what people were seeing. The clothed image is real. The torso underneath it is entirely computer generated.
Not hard to see the potential for problems here.
Must have been 'popular'!!!!!..................
From DeepNudeApp's Twitter Page
They should have known............................
The technology is out there now and there's no putting the toothpaste back into the tube. It'll only be refined and improved upon. The bugs will be worked out and the coding will be copied. All pornography will soon be computer generated. There will be no need to use real models who wish to be paid.
There's going to be so many legal implications involved. For one, all porn models are required to sign legal documents and provide proof of adult age that are then kept on record with the company distributing the photos. How will fake computer-generated models prove that they are 18 and not 17 years old?
And this is just the issue of computer-generated models. Deepfakes takes celebrity fakes to a whole new level of authenticity.
There's a lot of ambiguity there. What if I accuse you of making a computer generated porn image of a model that I think looks 15 but you argue really looks 18? Who says different? Can you discern a 15-year old from an 18-year old just by looking at a photo? I can't. It's computer generated. There's no model ID on record. Are you breaking the law or not?
What will probably happen is the laws will ban all CGI porn, regardless of perceived ages.
OR
All will be legalized.
There is no middle ground................
This is what I expect will happen (or be attempted). Politicians who have no understanding of the technology will pass knee-jerk laws in response to issues they falsely perceive to be crises. "To save the children we must ensure that only authentic 18-year old teen girls are exploited in porn!"
WHO DIDN'T SEE THIS COMING?
Uh, what *this* are you talking about? ;^)
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