From 404 Media
Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale
By Emanuel Maiberg
On CivitAI, a site for sharing image generating AI models, users can browse thousands of models that can produce any kind of pornographic scenario they can dream of, trained on real images of real people scraped without consent from every corner of the internet...
Hany Farid, an image forensics expert and professor at University of California, Berkeley told 404 Media that it’s the same problem we’ve seen since deepfakes first appeared six years ago, only the tools for creating these images are easier to access and use.
“This means that the threat has moved from anyone with a large digital footprint, to anyone with even a modest digital footprint,” Farid said. “And, of course, now that these tools and content are being monetized, there is even more incentive to create and distribute them...”
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley. He specializes in digital forensics.
