‘Digital public shaming’: Chinese AI tools under fire for pornographic deepfakes
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Chinese AI tools, particularly ByteDance's Doubao chatbot, are facing criticism for enabling the creation of non-consensual, pornographic deepfakes of real women. The feminist media collective Free Nora reported that internet users are exploiting Doubao to generate these images, leading to what they describe as a "digital public shaming" campaign. Doubao is China's leading chatbot with 155 million weekly active users as of late December. While AI deepfakes are a global concern, Free Nora argues that effective regulation in China remains limited, leaving women vulnerable to having their images extracted, altered, and sexually degraded. ByteDance has not responded to requests for comment.
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