DeepfakeHigh
Telegram Channels Allowed Users to Make Non-Consensual Deepfake Porn as Paid Service
- Occurred
- Jul 11, 2019
- Published
- Oct 20, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Seven channels were connected in a Telegram ecosystem centered around letting subscribers, as a paid service, generate non-consensual deepfake nudes using a bot from submitted photos of women, including underage girls and women who they know in real life.
Developers
- Alberto
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Synthetic video generation technology developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic image generation technology developers
Deployers
- Telegram channels
- Telegram users
- Deepfake creators
- Synthetic media creators
Harmed parties
- Women
- Women and girls
- Girls
- Celebrities
- Public figures
- Privacy
- Biometric data subjects
- Epistemic integrity
Tags
- variant:unreviewed
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Non-consensual deepfake porn involving minors and real individuals constitutes severe harm and potential criminal activity.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8