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‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity::It’s part of a worrying trend of non-consensual “deepfake” pornography being developed and distributed because of advances in artificial intelligence.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think any of the models they're using are trained from scratch. It would be much cheaper to take something like Stable Diffusion and finetune it or use one of the hundreds of premade porn finetunes that already exist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah, training a FM from scratch is stupid expensive. You're talking about a team of data scientists each pulling at least 6 figures.