While the ethics of AI-generated pornography are still being debated, the use of technology to create non-consensual sexual images of people is reprehensible, and I think we can all agree that it is reprehensible. One such technique is “striptease” sites, which take a natural-looking photo of a person wearing clothes and generate a fake nude version of it. As you might imagine, the potential for abuse here is pretty much limitless.
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu announced that he will file a lawsuit to shut down 16 of the most popular of these sites. At a press conference and Interview with the New York TimesThis may not eliminate the use of this technology entirely, but it may help make this app more dangerous than the bad guys behind it might try.