Julia, 21, has received fake nude photos of herself generated by artificial intelligence. The phenomenon is exploding.

Julia, 21, has received fake nude photos of herself generated by artificial intelligence. The phenomenon is exploding.

“I’d already heard about deepfakes and deepnudes (…) but I wasn’t really aware of it until it happened to me. It was a slightly anecdotal event that happened in other people’s lives, but it wouldn’t happen in mine”, thought Julia, a 21-year-old Belgian marketing student and semi-professional model.

At the end of September 2023, she received an email from an anonymous author. Subject: "Realistic? “We wonder which photo would best resemble you”, she reads.

Attached were five photos of her.

In the original content, posted on her social networks, Julia poses dressed. In front of her eyes are the same photos. Only this time, Julia is completely naked.

Julia has never posed naked. She never took these photos. The Belgian model realises that she has been the victim of a deepfake.

  • Dadd Volante@sh.itjust.works
    356·
    9 months ago

    I’m guessing it’s easier to feel that way if your name is Justin.

    If it was Justine, you might have issues.

    Weird how that works.

    • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
      204·
      9 months ago

      Fair enough. Ideally it would be the same for women too, but we’re not there as a society yet.

      • steakmeoutt@sh.itjust.works
        1237·
        9 months ago

        Such an empty response. Do you know that women have to do things on dates out of fear of being killed? Literally they have a rational fear of being killed by their male dates and it’s a commonly known and accepted fear that many women relate.

        Society moving forward is a nice idea, women feeling safe is much better one and attitudes like yours are part of the reason women generally do not feel safe. Deepfakes are not freeing at all.

        • fustigation769curtain@lemmy.world
          93·
          9 months ago

          Literally they have a rational fear of being killed by their male dates and it’s a commonly known and accepted fear that many women relate.

          No joke, stop dating shitty men.

          I get that’s too difficult for a lot of them, though.

          • gothic_lemons@lemmy.world
            21·
            9 months ago

            How do you identify shitty men? They don’t wear labels. In fact they do their best to hide their shitty behavior at first.

            • fustigation769curtain@lemmy.world
              52·
              9 months ago

              Learn from your experiences, the experiences of others, and try to be a better judge of character. Don’t hang around bad crowds.

              Unfortunately, most people can’t rise above peer pressure and think a group is always correct even if it’s comprised of shitty people.

              What you don’t do is keep doing the same thing and expecting different results.

              • gothic_lemons@lemmy.world
                14·
                9 months ago

                Your responses are tone death as fuck.

                The experiences of other woman is they thought they could trust certain men and they ended up dead. My experience is that men can massively change their behavior depending on the social setting. Just guys, guys and girls, or alone with a woman.

                Besides sometimes its not even a bad crowd thing or judge of character. Sometimes some creep gets obsessed with a women and if she turns him down the “wrong” way, dude can flip and kill her.

                There have been multiple INCEL killers. What did women do wrong that time, oh great wise one?

                I encourage you to make women friends and actually listen to their experiences. It is not as simple as you make it out to be.