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An App Which Could Have Meant For Any Woman to Be a Victim of Revenge Porn Taken Down By the Developers

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.


An app created solely for "entertainment" a couple of months back, won attention as well as criticism. It professed to have the option to take off the clothes from pictures of women to make counterfeit nudes which implied that any woman could be a victim of revenge porn.

Saying that the world was not prepared for it the app developers have now removed the software from the web and wrote a message on their Twitter feed saying, "The probability that people will misuse it is too high, we don't want to make money this way."

Likewise ensuring that that there would be no different variants of it accessible and subsequently withdrawing the privilege of any other person to utilize it, they have also made sure that any individual who purchased the application would get refund too.

The program was accessible in two forms - a free one that put enormous watermarks over made pictures and a paid rendition that put a little "fake" stamp on one corner.

Katelyn Bowden,  founder of anti-revenge porn campaign group Badass, called the application "terrifying".

"Now anyone could find themselves a victim of revenge porn, without ever having taken a nude photo, this tech should not be available to the public, “she says.

The program apparently utilizes artificial intelligence based neural networks to remove clothing from the images of women to deliver realistic naked shots.

The technology is said to be similar to that used to make the so-called deepfakes, which could create pornographic clips of celebrities.

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