Disturbing deepfake tool on popular messaging app Telegram is forging NUDE images of underage girls

Photos underage girls share on their social media accounts are being faked to appear nude and shared on messaging app Telegram, a new report discovered. The disturbing images are created using a simple'deepfake' bot that can virtually remove clothes using artificial intelligence, according to report authors Sensity. More than 100,000 non-consensual sexual images of 10,000 women and girls have been shared online that were created using the bot between July 2019 and 2020. The majority of the victims were private individuals with photos taken from social media - all were women and some looked'visibly underage', Sensity said. Sensity says what makes this bot particularly scary is how easy it is to use as it just requires the user to upload an image of a girl, click a few buttons and it then uses its'neural network' to determine what would be under the clothes and produce a nude This form of'deepfake porn' isn't new, the technology behind this bot is suspected to be based on an tool produced last year called DeepNude.