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Millions of People Are Using Abusive AI ‘Nudify’ Bots on Telegram

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A review of Telegram communities involved with the explicit nonconsensual content has identified at least 50 bots that claim to create explicit photos or videos of people with only a couple of clicks.

The 50 bots list more than 4 millionmonthly users” combined, according to a review of the statistics presented by each bot.

The findings illustrate how widespread explicit deepfake creation tools have become.

Many of the bots require people to buy “tokens” to create images, and it is unclear if they operate in the ways they claim.

One bot with more than 300,000 monthly users did not reference any explicit material in its name or landing page.

Another bot has a user guide, hosted on the web outside of Telegram , describing how to create the highest-quality images.

# NotYourPorn is a campaign group working to protect people from image-based sexual abuse.

Elena Michael says Telegram has been “notoriously difficult” to discuss safety issues with.

She says the company should be more proactive in moderating and filtering out content itself.