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'DeepNude' app that 'undresses' women shut down after furor

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Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON, United States—The creators of an application allowing users to virtually &quot;undress&quot; women using artificial intelligence have shut it down after a social media uproar over its potential for abuse.The creators of &quot;DeepNude&quot; said the software was launched several months ago for &quot;entertainment&quot; and that they &quot;greatly underestimated&quot; demand for the app.&quot;We never thought it would be viral and (that) we would not be able to control the traffic,&quot; the DeepNude creators, who listed their location as Estonia, said on Twitter.&quot;Despite the safety measures adopted (watermarks), if 500,000 people use it, the probability that people will misuse it is too high. We don&#x27;t want to make money this way.&quot;Articles in The Washington Post, Vice and other media showed how the app could be used to take a photo of a clothed woman and transform that into a nude image, sparking outrage and renewed debate over nonconsensual pornography.&quot;This is a horrifically destructive invention and we hope to see you soon suffer consequences for your actions,&quot; tweeted the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, a group that seeks protection against nonconsenual and &quot;revenge&quot; porn.Mary Anne Franks, a law professor and president of the CCRI, tweeted later, &quot;It&#x27;s good that it&#x27;s been shut down, but this reasoning makes no sense. The app&#x27;s INTENDED USE was to indulge the predatory and grotesque sexual fantasies of pathetic men.&quot;DeepNude offered a free version of the application as well as a paid version, and was the latest in a trend of &quot;deepfake&quot; technology that can be used to deceive or manipulate.Although the app was shut down, critics expressed concern that some versions of the software remained available and would be abused.&quot;The #Deepnude app is out there now and will be used, despite the creator taking it off the market. If only there were a way to disable all the versions out there,&quot; CCRI tweeted.

WASHINGTON, United States—The creators of an application allowing users to virtually "undress" women using artificial intelligence have shut it down after a social media uproar over its potential for abuse.

WASHINGTON, United States—The creators of an application allowing users to virtually "undress" women using artificial intelligence have shut it down after a social media uproar over its potential for abuse.