From voice recognition devices to intelligent chatbots, AI has transformed our lives. But, every good thing also has a downside, and AI is no exception to this rule. Leading technology figures have warned of the looming dangers of AI, including Stephen Hawking, who said it could be the "worst event in the history of our civilization." Here are six times AI went a little too far and left us scratching our heads. Academic research is the backbone of scientific advancements and knowledge.

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Around 104,852 women had their photos uploaded to a bot, on the WhatsApp-like text messaging app Telegram, which were then used to generate computer-generated fake nudes of them without their knowledge or consent, researchers revealed on Tuesday. The text messaging service Telegram was used to generate and share these fake nudes. These so-called "deepfake" images were created by an ecosystem of bots on the messaging app Telegram that could generate fake nudes on request, according to a report released by Sensity, an intelligence firm that specializes in deepfakes. The report found that users interacting with these bots were mainly creating fake nudes of women they know from images taken from social media, which is then shared and traded on other Telegram channels. The Telegram channels the researchers examined were made up of 101,080 members worldwide, with 70% coming from Russia and other eastern European countries.

Sign up for the Week in Patriarchy, a newsletter on feminism and sexism sent every Saturday. Want to see Taylor Swift naked? It's called DeepNude and it uses AI to "undress" photos of women and produce a realistic nude image. Or rather, there was an app for that: the creators of the horrifying program took it down on Thursday after a Vice article about DeepNude catalyzed widespread outrage. "We created this project for user's entertainment a few months ago," the app's creators tweeted.

As news broke of a new app called DeepNude, which allowed anyone to alter a photo of a woman to make them appear nude, I found myself deeply disturbed by the speed at which deepfakes are evolving. Such a tangible and accessible tool highlights the darker side of AI, computer vision, and other machine learning techniques in the wrong hands. And while there are some incredibly overt examples of how deepfakes can be used to doctor videos of individuals, their appearance, their activities, as well as what they are saying, the accessibility of this technology has mostly been in the hands of the technical few that understood it. Even with this knowledge, the time it takes to generate convincing deepfakes was also a barrier. But DeepNude showed that altering images can be done in seconds versus the days it previously took on incredibly powerful machines out of reach of the general public.

A disturbing app has been developed which uses artificial intelligence and algorithms to produce fake nude images of women. The app, called DeepNude, removes all clothing from any uploaded image of a woman - sparking fears it could be used to blackmail unsuspecting victims with fake revenge porn threats. Since the app came to light, it has been taken offline, claiming it'cannot cope' with the volume of interest. The anonymous developers said they would be back within days and just needed'to fix some bugs and catch our breath'. In the free version of the app, the output images are partially covered with a large watermark.

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.

A new AI-powered software tool makes it easy for anyone to generate realistic nude images of women simply by feeding the program a picture of the intended target wearing clothes. The app is called DeepNude and it's the latest example of AI-generated deepfakes being used to create compromising images of unsuspecting women. The software was first spotted by Motherboard's Samantha Cole, and is available to download free for Windows, with a premium version that offers better resolution output images available for $99. Both the free and premium versions of the app add watermarks to the AI-generated nudes that clearly identify them as "fake." But in the images created by Motherboard, this watermark is easy to remove.