Celebrity photo leak: Fake links to nude photos cause nationwide internet crash in New Zealand
Facebook and Instagram hosted ads that featured a blurred fake nude image of an underage celebrity used to promote an app that billed itself as a way to make sexually explicit images with artificial intelligence.
The advertisements are part of a growing , where fake nude images of girls and women, as well as fake sexually-explicit videos, have spread widely thanks to the growing availability of tools like the one NBC News identified. More nonconsensual sexually-explicit deepfake videos were posted online in 2023 than every other year combined, according to independent research from deepfake analyst Genevieve Oh and MyImageMyChoice, an advocacy group for deepfake victims. The same research found that Ortega is among the 40 most-targeted celebrity women on the biggest deepfake website.
Last week, Beverly Hills, California, police into middle school students who school officials said were using such tools to make fake nude photos of their equally young classmates. that some top Google and Bing search results included manipulated images featuring child faces on nude adult bodies.
Such images often feature faces of well-known celebrities before they turned 18 combined with an adult’s nude body. Two of the top 10 image search results for the term “fake nudes” on Microsoft’s Bing were sexually explicit deepfakes of female celebrities from when they were ages 12 and 15, according to a review conducted by NBC News. One of those images was also returned on the first page of Google image search results for one of the celebrity’s names plus “fake nudes.”
