SINGAPORE — TikToker shared her harrowing experience by an anonymous social media user who used artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate fake nudity of her, before sharing the image with her and other online users. Sent.
A young woman named Rachel of unknown nationality has 14,900 followers on Instagram and 51,500 followers on TikTok. She speaks with a slight American accent.
She first addressed the situation in a TikTok video posted on April 23 (April 24 Singapore time), and said she received a message request on Instagram the day before.
The direct message (DM) contained a photo of the woman she posted on her public profile, and the anonymous Instagram user supposedly ran a “deepfake AI program” to create fake nude images. increase.
Deepfake technology, which allows users to convincingly manipulate a person’s likeness, was discovered in January by famous Twitch streamer Brandon “Atriok” Ewing, who viewed non-consensual deepfake porn of other popular streamers. It became a hot topic recently after it was discovered that
In the second video posted last Thursday, Rachel explains:
“They basically photoshopped me naked.”
TikToker “got really freaked out” but she simply ignored the message, she said in another photo post last Thursday.
The next day, she received “dozens of DMs” from multiple users that included AI-generated nudes of herself.
To make matters worse, the images lacked the AI-programmed watermark used by the first anonymous Instagram user.
This leads Rachel to quickly realize that the creators of these fake images paid to have their watermarks removed to “pretend to be real”, so she shares the unwatermarked nude images with other online users. distributed to.
In her first video, Rachel first adopts an exaggerated, aggressive tone common to dramatic comedy rants, declaring: My huge fucking boobs, it’s out of proportion. ”
This seemed to downplay the impact the incident had on her, and attracted joking comments downplaying it.
Top comments still on the April 23 video include “Bro said he would at least respect the source material” and “He wanted feedback on accuracy 💀”.
Others joked: “You sound more upset that it was inaccurate 😭” and “That’s creepy but what you said at the end is so funny 😂”.
An even more disturbing comment suggested that Rachel should “publish the real thing so no one believes the fake.”
