Facebook and Instagram have allowed an image featuring a blurred deepfake nude of actress Jenna Ortega as a teenager to advertise an app that can create explicit fake images of people powered by artificial intelligence.
The app, called “Perky AI,” has now been removed from Apple’s app store, but last month it ran at least 11 ads across the two platforms featuring a blurred image of 16-year-old Ortega appearing topless. Displayed the image. According to NBC News.
However, the image of the “Wednesday” star was fake.
The ad showed how users of the app could create fake nudes of real people by providing prompts such as “Please don’t wear any clothes.”
Other suggestions the ad offered in response to the AI prompts included “latex costumes” and “Batman underwear,” the news station said.
Perky AI charges $7.99 per week, or $29.99 for 12 weeks, but can create “NSFW” (meaning “not safe for work”) images upon user request. It was advertised.
Meta, the parent company of both social media platforms, suspended the Perk app pages after NBC News contacted them.
Before the account was suspended, the AI-powered app had run more than 260 different ads on the platform since September, 30 of which had been previously suspended by Meta, the media outlet said. .
One ad featuring a deepfake of Ortega, now 21, had been viewed more than 2,600 times on Instagram before it was removed, the station reported.
Another Perky ad shows a doctored and blurred image of singer Sabrina Carpenter and makes similar claims that it uses AI to show her without clothes, according to NBC News. It is said that it was done.
This disturbing ad is part of a growing problem with AI-generated deepfakes of girls and women online. Digitally created child pornography is some of the worst cases, as is fake revenge porn by upset ex-lovers.
Meta said in a statement that it “strictly prohibits services that provide child nudity, child sexual content, or non-consensual AI-generated nude images.”
“While the app remains widely available in various app stores, we have removed these ads and the accounts behind them,” Meta spokesperson Ryan Daniels told the Post.
Representatives for Mr. Ortega did not respond to requests for comment.
Apple also removed the Perky app from its app store after it was found to violate the company’s policy on “overtly sexual or pornographic material.”
