Huge collection of nude photos leaked from AI Image Generator Startup’s exposed database

Image by Amnesty International The startup generator left more than a million photos and videos created and its systems exposed and accessible to anyone online, according to new research reviewed by WIRED. The “overwhelming majority” of the images included nudity and were “graphic adult content”, according to the researcher who uncovered the data set, with some appearing to depict children or have children’s faces swapped onto AI-generated naked adult bodies.

Multiple websites, including MagicEdit and DreamPal, all appear to be using the same insecure database, says security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who discovered the security flaw in October. At that time, Fowler says, about 10,000 new images were being added to the database every day. To indicate how people use image creation and editing tools, these images included “unedited” photos of real people who may have been “non-consenting”naked,“Or their faces were swapped with other naked bodies.

“The real problem is just innocent people, especially underage people, using their images without their consent to create sexual content,” says Fowler, a prolific doxxer who posted the findings on the website. ExpressVPN Blog. Fowler says it was the third one that was misconfigured AI image generation database He found them available online this year – all of which appeared to contain non-consensual explicit images, including images of young people and children.

Fowler’s findings come as AI image creation tools continue to be used to maliciously create explicit images of people. A massive ecosystem of “erosion” services It is used by millions of people and Earn millions of dollars annuallyuses artificial intelligence to “undress” people — almost entirely women — in photos. Images stolen from social media can be edited with just a few clicks: leading to horrific abuse and harassment of women. Meanwhile, Reports Of criminals using artificial intelligence to create child sexual abuse material, covering a A collection of inappropriate photos involving children, has doubled over the past year.

“We take these concerns seriously,” says a spokesperson for a startup called DreamX, which operates MagicEdit and DreamPal. An influencer marketing company linked to the database, called SocialBook, is managed “by a separate legal entity and is not involved” in the operation of the other sites, the spokesperson says. “These entities share some historical relationships through founders and legacy assets, but operate independently with separate product lines,” the spokesperson says.

“SocialBook is not connected to the database you referenced, does not use that storage, and was not involved in its operation or management at any time,” a SocialBook spokesperson told WIRED. “The referenced images were not generated, processed or stored by SocialBook’s systems. SocialBook operates independently and has no role in the described infrastructure.”