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Leonardo AI's Platform Alleged to Have Been Used for Creating Nonconsensual Celebrity Deepfakes

Occurred
Mar 26, 2024
Published
Apr 10, 2024
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

Sydney-based startup Leonardo AI's text-to-image generator was alleged to have been exploited to create nonconsensual sexual images of celebrities, bypassing content moderation systems with user-shared prompts.

Developers

  • Leonardo AI

Deployers

  • Telegram community users
  • Reddit users
  • Leonardo AI users

Harmed parties

  • Public figures
  • Celebrities

Classification

Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: Nonconsensual celebrity deepfakes created via AI image generator bypassing moderation systems.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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