This AI will slap a bikini on your naughty bits
Summary
A recent paper describes how researchers trained a type of AI algorithms known as generative adversarial networks to put bikinis on photos of nude women. By looking at examples of almost 2,000 pictures of women—both naked and bikini-clad—the AI can take an image of a lady in her birthday suit, figure out where to place a bikini and create a new, more modest shot. Their study, “Seamless Nudity Censorship: an Image-to-Image Translation Approach based on Adversarial Training,” debuted last month at the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks in Rio de Janeiro. (The researchers, who downloaded their “data set” from torrent sites, say they didn’t use images of men because of time constraints but plan to add them in future iterations.) People could also end up using software like this to create a new kind of deep fakes, which gained widespread attention after videos began circulating of unwitting victims, usually celebrities, inserted into pornographic films with the help of AI.