Telegram bot creates non-consensual deepfake porn at scale
Date: 2020-10
Affected: >100,000 women and girls
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: Critical

A Telegram bot built on the DeepNude code was found by Sensity to have generated non-consensual sexual deepfakes of more than 100,000 women, including minors, from photographs submitted by users. The case is a landmark for industrialized AI sexual-violence-as-a-service.


Mitigations:

Architectural layers (MAESTRO):