Popular sales platform eBay has suspended numerous sellers from selling AI-generated nudes of at least 40 celebrities, including Margot Robbie, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Jennifer Aniston and more. I was forced to delete hundreds of images.
forbes has flagged listings on the platform, with one seller allegedly selling more than 400 items containing edited and explicit images for less than $7.
eBay allows you to sell items featuring nudity as long as they are listed in the Art and Collectibles category. However, the company's adult product policy states that “AI-generated or Photoshopped images of celebrities that are nude or sexually suggestive” are prohibited.
Spokeswoman Trina Somera told the publication that eBay uses a combination of “AI technology, professionally trained eBay investigators, and thorough market research” to detect prohibited items. He said he was doing it.
“Listings that contain AI-generated or Photoshopped adult images of celebrities that violate eBay policies will be blocked or removed. We have detected that you are attempting to list a prohibited item. Users may face severe consequences, including permanent suspension,” Somera added.
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This isn't the first time a celebrity has been targeted by questionable AI-generated images, with podcaster Bobby Althoff recently finding himself appearing in a vulgar deepfake video.
Furthermore, in a study by Glamour, Rape Crisis England & Wales and Refuge found that 91% of respondents believed deepfakes were a threat to women's safety, while 40% of respondents believed that they were more concerned about image-based sexual abuse, so-called “revenge porn.” He revealed that he was afraid of “.
Emma Pickering, head of technology abuse and economic empowerment at the shelter, said:: “Technology-facilitated abuse can be more insidious and harder to detect than other types of domestic violence, but it is similarly rooted in coercive control. 'Deepfakes' and other forms of intimate The incidence of this type of crime, including image abuse, currently concerns women on a large scale and is truly alarming.
“With so little education about digital consent and this type of domestic violence, these forms of abuse are impacting women on an unprecedented scale, so we need to sound the alarm and take action now. We must take action. As new technologies evolve and become cheaper and more available, perpetrators are equipped with new technological weapons to harm women.”
Indy100 has reached out to eBay for comment.
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