While deepfakes aren’t anything new, the concept of AI generating everything under the sun is certainly the current talk of the decade. However, with all this machine-generated content comes a lot of issues, especially regarding ethics. That said, one 36-year-old woman living in Rhode Island experienced the malicious use of AI from her 40-year-old male friend in New Hampshire. It all started when she discovered he had been creating AI-generated nudes from local cosplayer’s Instagram posts.
The account owner and her friends were trying to get to the bottom of the man’s actions, so they asked the woman, who happened to be this culprit’s friend, for more proof that he habitually used AI. She claims to hardly look at her DMs with him unless it’s a game night. However, when she started sifting through the many messages they’d sent in their chat, she started looking over all the “AI slop” he had sent her over the past months. It wasn’t until she stumbled upon a photo of herself, topless, that caught her attention.
Online Users Are Baffled the Woman Didn’t Notice the AI Photo of Herself Sooner
Allegedly, her friend had used one of her photos and altered it using AI to generate a picture of her without anything covering the top of her body. Even though it was seemingly only sent to her via DM and not shared publicly, “I didn’t consent to it,” she explained in her NSFW-tagged post on r/legaladvice. “Can this be classified as revenge porn, or anything that I can fight?” she asked. She claims there are no laws against deepfakes or fake AI imagery in Rhode Island, but she hopes to take some sort of legal action against this so-called friend.
However, what most people in the post’s comments were confused by was how she hadn’t noticed the topless photo of herself in the DMs before. “Like how do you miss a nude of yourself being sent to you by a friend???” one person asks in disbelief. But some people claim they understand what’s going on, and OP was just a “content dump” for her friend. Even though she claims they don’t talk much, he has sent her loads of pictures. “The likeliest scenario here is that Friend spams OP with images both SFW and NSFW and OP just doesn’t look at them because OP doesn’t really care,” explains one user.
Unfortunately, there aren’t really any options for OP to punish her colleague for making her naked without her consent, seeing how it only seems to have been sent to her DMs. But it seems she has made the right move to “block him on everything” right after she found out. “Definitely not my friend anymore,” she says in a reply, and that’s probably about the best she can do.
