Telegram Channels Allowed Users to Make Non-Consensual Deepfake Porn as Paid Service
Description
Seven channels were connected in a Telegram ecosystem centered around letting subscribers, as a paid service, generate non-consensual deepfake nudes using a bot from submitted photos of women, including underage girls and women who they know in real life.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- telegram-channels
- telegram-users
- deepfake-creators
- synthetic-media-creators
Alleged Developers
- alberto
- synthetic-media-generation-technology-developers
- synthetic-video-generation-technology-developers
- deepfake-technology-developers
- synthetic-image-generation-technology-developers
Harmed Parties
- women
- women-and-girls
- girls
- celebrities
- public-figures
- privacy
- biometric-data-subjects
- epistemic-integrity
Classification
Risk Domain
Malicious Actors & MisuseRisk Subdomain
4.3. Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
MIT Risk Profile
Source
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