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4chan Is Using TikTok Owner ByteDance’s Hidden AI App to Generate Porn
When , the text-to-image AI developed by startup , was open sourced earlier this year, it didn’t take long for the internet to wield it for porn-creating purposes. Communities across Reddit and 4chan tapped the AI system to generate realistic and anime-style images of nude characters, mostly women, as well as non-consensual fake nude imagery of celebrities.
According to , AI-generated porn started to appear on Telegram and 4chan earlier this month, with users claiming that they made it using Cici. These images circulated in the same forums in which were previously found in.
4chan Users Are Using Bytedance App to Make Porn
4chan, the image-based message board site with a reputation for is home to pages devoted to nonconsensual deepfake porn, WIRED found, made with openly available programs and AI models dedicated solely to sexual images. Message boards for adult images are littered with AI-generated nonconsensual nudes of real women, from porn performers to actresses like Cate Blanchett. WIRED also observed 4chan users sharing workarounds for NSFW images using OpenAI’s Dall-E 3.
