Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features

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Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features. The story centres on Deepfakes. Reported by WIRED. Bharat Hunt files it under Generative AI and AI Tools — the section covering text, image, audio and video generation — products and their output.

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Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features

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