Analysis from an independent researcher who tracks websites, who did not wish to be named, due to the sensitive subject nature, found that Bravo’s site had 630 paying customers in the three days of its launch on August. According to the analysis, this could net Bravo between $7,553 and $57,323. Bravo claims he has earned in this range when presented with the figures.
Bravo, who previously created a desktop app that can be used to “rip off” people, tries to justify its website by saying that it and others include These disclaimers prohibit them from being used to harm others. He also claims the technology could be developed to work on men and could be used by the adult industry to create custom pornography. (The creators of the other sub-site did not respond to emailed questions.) However, deepfakes have been used to humiliate and abuse women since their inception — the vast majority of deepfakes created. out is porn and most of them are aimed at women. Last year Researchers have discovered a bot of Telegram deepfakes abused more than 100,000 women, including underage girls. And in 2020, more than 1,000 unusual deepfake porn videos have been uploaded to mainstream adult sites every month, with websites doing little to protect victims.
Seyi Akiwowo, founder and chief executive officer of Glitch!, a UK charity working to end the abuse of women and disadvantaged people online, said: can have real and devastating consequences. “Domestic abusers will go to sites like this to take innocent pictures of themselves in an attempt to do more harm.”
“I’m being taken advantage of,” says Hollywood actress Kristen Bell Vox in June 2020 after discovering deepfakes made with her pictures. Others targeted by the abusive deepfake images said they were shocked at the realism, do not want their children to see the picturesand have been struggling to remove them from the web. “It really makes you feel helpless, like you’re being put in your place,” says Helen Mort, a poet and broadcaster. MIT . Technology Review. “To be punished for being a woman with a public voice in any way.”
According to experts, preventing these harms requires multiple approaches, combining legal, technical and social measures. “We need to educate the youth, the adults, everyone around the real harm of using this and then spreading this,” Akiwowo said. Others say that technology and payment platforms should also offer more mitigations. Mikiba Morehead, a consultant with the risk management firm TNG, who also studies online sexual abuse needs more education, but technology can also stop their spread. . “This could include the use of algorithms to identify, tag, and report deepfake documents, and the recruitment and training of credential verifiers to help uncover deepfakes and other malicious actors. specific educational initiative for those working in the media on how to detect deepfakes, to help prevent the spread of misinformation,” she said.
For example, Meta’s Facebook has been developing ways to reverse engineer deepfakes, but this type of technology is still relatively immature. GitHub is owned by Microsoft keep organizing source code for AI apps that create nudity, despite saying it will ban the original DeepNude software in 2019.
