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Incident 530: 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.

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Alleged: Telegram channels and Alberto developed an AI system deployed by Telegram channels, which harmed Women , underage girls and female celebrities.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
530
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2019-07-11
Editors
Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
MIT

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Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

4.3. Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation

Risk Domain

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
  1. Malicious Actors & Misuse

Entity

Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
 

Human

Timing

The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
 

Post-deployment

Intent

Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
 

Intentional

Incident Reports

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Incident Occurrence+1
Deepfake bots on Telegram make the work of creating fake nudes dangerously easy
Deepfake bots on Telegram make the work of creating fake nudes dangerously easy

Deepfake bots on Telegram make the work of creating fake nudes dangerously easy

theverge.com

A deepfake bot is being used to “undress” underage girls

A deepfake bot is being used to “undress” underage girls

technologyreview.com

Deepfake bots on Telegram make the work of creating fake nudes dangerously easy
theverge.com · 2020

Researchers have discovered a “deepfake ecosystem” on the messaging app Telegram centered around bots that generate fake nudes on request. Users interacting with these bots say they’re mainly creating nudes of women they know using images t…

A deepfake bot is being used to “undress” underage girls
technologyreview.com · 2020

Within 24 hours, the Vice article had inspired such a backlash that the creators of the app quickly took it down. The DeepNude Twitter account announced that no other versions would be released, and no one else would get access to the techn…

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
unreviewed
Incident Date:
2023-08-03
Description of Incident Circumstances
Journalistic reporting on the circumstances of the incident to help inform people what happened, where, involving who, when, and why.
 

Researchers have discovered a “deepfake ecosystem” on the messaging app Telegram centered around bots that generate fake nudes on

Inputs / Outputs
The sequence of data inputs into the intelligent system and outputs produced by the system involved in the incident. For a chatbot, this will generally present a back and forth between a human and the chatbot's responses.
 

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