A Telegram bot that does nothing but AI generate nonconsensual short videos of men ejaculating on women’s faces has more than 150,000 monthly active users.
Only after this article was first published did Telegram reply to my request for comment, ask for the bot's name, and remove it.
Telegram bots that produce nonconsensual pornography are common, but this particular bot is notable for amassing 115,016 users in just a few weeks and for making the bleeding edge of AI video generation cheap and easy to access for nefarious means. The bot’s popularity also shows how quickly “open” AI tools released by tech giants are being adopted to cause harm.
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