Creator KILLS disturbing app that doctored nude images women from a single picture after backlash

After widespread backlash, a disturbing app that uses artificial intelligence to produce fake nude images of women is being taken offline. According to the anonymous creator of the app who goes by'Alberto,' the takedown stems from the app's potential to be abused. 'Despite the safety measures adopted (watermarks) if 500,000 people use it, the probability that people will misuse it is too high,' reads the tweet. Shortly after news of a'deepfaking' app capable of doctoring photos of nude women spread across the media, creators have taken the service offline It is a downloadable offline app which works on Windows and Linux. It is believed the software is based on pix2pix, an open-source algorithm developed by University of California, Berkeley researchers in 2017.