These Nudes Do Not Exist sells AI-generated nude images of women
These Nudes Do Not Exist, a startup, sells AI-generated nude images of non-existent women for a dollar per photo. The site uses Generative Adversarial Networks trained on a database of nude images of real women, raising ethical concerns about consent and commodification. The co-founders remain anonymous and claim to use only ethically sourced data, but the article questions the verifiability of consent.
- Date it happened
- 2020-03-13
- Organisation involved
- These Nudes Do Not Exist
- Product, system or model
- These Nudes Do Not Exist
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