Apple urgently removed it from the shelves! This kind of one-click undressing AI is too rebellious

Ray Technology

2024-04-29 23:39Published in Guangdong science and technology creators

Rewind time to a few years ago, if Xiao Lei and his friends talk about AI, you may think that I am in the Arabian Nights?

At that time, the impression left by AI on people was still in the science fiction movie of intelligent robots, intelligent life assistants, and so on.

If you really want to talk about it, the closest thing to us should be the voice assistant in the mobile phone, which is not very smart.

The voice assistant responds every word, but whether it's right or not is another matter, right, Siri?

But now it's different, how fast AI has developed in recent years, everyone can see how fast it is, and the first year of AI has already come.

In the fields of pictures, videos, audio, and text, AI has played a trick, and it can even be said to be "subversive".

Take the most widely used picture AI as an example, in fact, in our daily life, it can be seen everywhere now.

Billboards outdoors, posters in elevators, promotional images in shopping malls...... Everyone wonders if that's the case?

Not only that, many apps have also added image AI features, but what has followed is controversy.

Apple and Google have successively removed relevant APPs, and domestic mobile phone manufacturers have also banned operations, what is going on?

苹果谷歌下架脱衣AI APP

At present, the application of AI in pictures can be divided into these categories: AI image generation, image expansion, erasure, and image quality restoration.

These are all very normal content, but some people with ulterior motives have developed some malicious APPs based on this.

Just last Friday, foreign media 404 Media reported: Apple and Google respectively removed a number of apps from the app store that claimed to be able to achieve "one-click change of clothes".

"One-click change of clothes" sounds outrageous, but in fact, this thing can be seen as an upgraded version of "one-click face change".

Source: 404 Media

As early as 2019, some programmers developed a "one-click undressing" app called "DeepNude".

The developers claim that by giving DeepNude a picture of a woman, it will be able to use neural network technology to generate an unclothed image of the person by taking off her clothes.

Good guys, if this APP falls into the hands of people with crooked brains, isn't it a proper indecent photo generator?

In order to prevent DeepNude from being abused, the developers eventually chose to shut down DeepNude's website and app.

Source: IT House

If DeepNude is just a small fight by independent developers, how did the "one-click stripping" app now available on the Apple and Google Play stores pass the review?

According to reports, many of these apps come from the ad library of the Meta platform, and the ads of these malicious apps are generally placed on Meta's platforms.

As soon as a user clicks on an ad, they are redirected to Apple's or Google's app stores, which means that users can find similar apps without having to search for keywords such as "stripping" themselves.

Moreover, such AI apps are often packaged as other AI-generated apps, and developers are likely to avoid the censorship mechanisms of Apple and Google's app stores in this way.

After all this effort, the app developer is definitely not using love to generate electricity, but to earn ill-gotten gains through the "one-click undressing" function.

Fortunately, after foreign media reports, Apple and Google have also taken practical actions to remove a number of "one-click undressing" apps.

Meta is also actively collecting malvertising links to remove them, and said that it will increase review and take measures against policies that violate the regulations.

Source: indianexpress.com

AI removes sensitive images from banning

In addition to the above, Xiaolei found that domestic mobile phone manufacturers have also made some restrictions on "AI elimination".

If I'm not mistaken, mobile phones have an "AI elimination" function, which must have only become popular since last year.

AI erasure can perfectly remove unnecessary people and objects from photos through AI technology, making photos look more concise.

Left before AI elimination Right After AI elimination Source: Screenshot of Xiaolei's mobile phone

It's just that I don't know which god had a whim, and actually used AI elimination to eliminate the position of women's photos on their breasts.

Ahem, as a result, the AI elimination function of some mobile phones eliminates the clothes, and even makes up the human body.

The AI originally calculated based on the edge background, and the effect after patching looks really harmonious, and it can't be blamed for not being able to do it.

Again, if someone has bad intentions, this feature can indeed generate some indecent photos that don't exist.

Source: Internet

At that time, many people paid attention to this matter, but after media reports, the AI elimination of mainstream brand mobile phones was restricted.

If you use AI to remove sensitive parts of the human body in a photo, a message like "The image may contain sensitive information, so this function cannot be used" will appear.

If it is smeared elsewhere, AI elimination can be used normally, and friends can try their own mobile phones, which should have this kind of limitation.

Source: Screenshot of Xiaolei's mobile phone

AI images are a double-edged sword

Apple and Google removed the "one-click undressing" APP, and mobile phone manufacturers banned AI to eliminate sensitive photos, and AI pictures have developed to this extent.

In fact, judging from the practical application of AI in pictures, it is more like a double-edged sword, which brings convenience but also some trouble.

There are many benefits of AI pictures: in the photography industry, it can help photographers to beautify their faces and reduce noise in the later stage, in the design industry, they can make designers less tedious drawing work, and in the self-media industry, Xiaolei found that some peers have used AI to illustrate articles, and AI-generated pictures not only conform to the general idea of the article, but also will not have the risk of infringement.

There are also a lot of troubles with AI pictures: one-click face swapping, one-click undressing, and one-click to increase human body details out of nothing...... In terms of human privacy and security, there are still many loopholes in AI that will be exploited by criminals.

Although every time similar news is exposed, relevant companies or platforms can take timely action and take measures to remove or prohibit them, they always have to wait for things to happen before making amends, which is often easy to go wrong.

The road to AI image application has just begun, and Xiaolei feels that the previous cases are enough for AI developers to get a warning.

When developing more new AI features, AI developers should consider in advance the negative operations and impacts that may occur after the new features are implemented.

It is naturally best to solve the problem before landing, and it is not impossible if it cannot be postponed or 80% of the effect of the original method can be achieved in a more reasonable way.

In short, friends still have to look at "AI pictures" with a reasonable eye, and Xiaolei also believes that the future development of AI will get better and better.

Cover image source: Apple App Store & Internet

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