Controversial deepfake app DeepNude shuts down hours after being exposed
- Offbeat
- July 1, 2019
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READ MORELess than a day after receiving widespread attention, the deepfake app that used AI to create fake nude photos of women is shutting down. In a tweet, the team behind DeepNude said they “greatly underestimated” interest in the project and that “the probability that people will misuse it is too high.” DeepNude will no longer
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