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