By this time you all know that an application has been launched that can create nude photos of any woman within a few seconds. Though the official website has been closed down a copy of the software is still available on the internet. The application is based on Neural Network and written in python code.
Deepfake is a technique where AI combines and superimposes
one image or video onto another image or video by using a machine-learning technique called Generative Adversarial Network(GEN). Here’s an example where
Sylvester Stallone is starring in the movie Terminator 2 instead of Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
While the above video causes no harm to anyone, a darker side of DeepFake emerged in the form of an app called DeepNude, which allows anyone to generate nude images of women with little or no effort. All they have to do is insert a photo of a woman wearing clothes into the app. The DeepNude app is available to download free for Windows. There’s a premium version that provides better resolution output images and is priced at 99$. Both, free as well as premium versions add the watermark ‘fake nude’ to the images to identify them.
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This DeepNude app is created by someone who identifies himself as ‘Alberto’.
He said he was inspired by the memories of old comic book adverts for “X-ray
specs”, which promised they could be used to see through people's clothes. He
also stated that he is aware of the potential harms that can be caused by this
software, but still decided to go ahead with it. Alberto told Motherboard “I also said to myself: the
technology is ready. So if someone has bad intentions, having DeepNude doesn’t
change much. If I don’t do it, someone else will do it in a year.” He also
added that if people started using the app for malicious purposes, they will
quit it for sure.
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