App that can remove women's clothes from images shut down

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

App that can remove women's clothes from images shut down

28 June 2019

An app that claimed to be able to digitally remove the clothes from pictures of women to create fake nudes has been taken offline by its creators.

The $50 (£40) Deepnude app won attention and criticism because of an article by tech news site Motherboard.

One campaigner against so-called revenge porn called the app "terrifying".

The developers have now removed the software from the web saying the world was not ready for it.

"The probability that people will misuse it is too high," wrote the programmers in a message on their Twitter feed. "We don't want to make money this way."

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48799045

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Related: This Horrifying App Undresses a Photo of Any Woman With a Single Click (Vice/Motherboard)

[tblue37]

1. What use of such an app would be other than "misuse"? nt

[global1]

2. It Might Keep Trump Off Twitter.....nt

[Adsos Letter]

3. My first thought as well. n/t

[yewberry]

4. Can't think of a thing.

Jesus, who comes up with this stuff?