A controversial mobile app which uses neural networks to create fake nude pictures of women has shut down shortly after gaining widespread public attention.<\/p>\n
The app, named DeepNude, generates realistic-looking nude images of women by using any picture as input and running the image through its AI algorithm.<\/p>\n
The free version of the app places a watermark over generated images which clearly shows that they are fake, but the paid version of the app only includes a small watermark in the corner of the processed image.<\/p>\n
Motherboard first discovered<\/strong><\/a> the application yesterday, and the story was soon picked up by other publications.<\/p>\n Following public outcry over the potential abuse of the app, DeepNude shut down its service, citing the high potential for misuse of the application.<\/p>\n “Despite the safety measures adopted (watermarks) if 500,000 people use it, the probability that people will misuse it is too high,” the app’s developer said in a tweet.<\/p>\n “Surely some copies of DeepNude will be shared on the web, but we don’t want to be the ones who sell it.”<\/p>\n The developer stated that downloading the software from other sources or sharing it would violate the terms of the DeepNude website.<\/p>\n “The world is not yet ready for DeepNude,” the developer said.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/deepnudeapp\/status\/1144307316231200768<\/p>\n A controversial app which uses neural networks to create fake nude pictures of women has shut down shortly after gaining widespread public attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":311757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[46137,59743,59741],"class_list":["post-311755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-application","tag-deepfake","tag-deepnude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: WhatsApp test lets you share your status to Facebook<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"