For years now, my parents have been super wary of how I use social media and the internet to connect with people online and the kind of information I generally share. And no, it isn’t because they don’t trust me but it is owing to a number of horror stories that they have read and heard of in the past years. The kind of stories that tell them about girls getting blackmailed by their ex-partners and lured by internet predators.
But then again all of us have heard a gazillion of such horror stories, right? The internet might have made our lives easier in a number of ways but it has also laid Pandora’s box wide open when it comes to women’s security. Women are now trolled, harassed, and threatened on a daily basis through the dark, indiscreet world of the internet. And sadly, it continues to get worse by the day.
In the latest turn of events, a new software has emerged that can convert fully-clothed pictures of women into highly realistic nudes. The software or the AI was recently spotted by researchers at Sensity, an Amsterdam-based cybersecurity start-up. As per their findings, it has already been accessed by almost 100,000 users worldwide. Their findings further reveal that almost 63 percent of the pictures that were edited and converted with the software were of women that the people who converted them knew in real life.
Also, you are free to bang your head in sheer fury when you hear this: the software that is converting women’s pictures into nudes and in a clear breach of their privacy, lets people upload them anonymously! Yes, any lecherous creep can upload a clothed women’s picture on the software and then receive an edited version of it with the initial trials being absolutely free.
The software edits these pictures with shocking accuracy and doesn’t even hide the women’s face to protect their identity. You can ascertain what kind of degenerate has designed this software simply by the fact that it only works on women. Also, inanimate objects!
Oh, and it doesn’t come to us as a surprise that the administrators of the software shared with The Washington Post that they think of it as ‘harmless sexual voyeurism.’ Of course, it’s harmless. For them. Because they clearly don’t know what it is like to be on the receiving end of unsolicited advances and cyberbullying.
Sad that they don’t even have the basic common sense to understand how this is a very, very dangerous tool in the hands of lecherous men who are always on the lookout to have their way with women. I mean we are literally living in a world where women are asked to send nudes by absolute strangers on the internet and then also abused and threatened when they ignore such advances or refuse to comply.
That’s why we ask: What the F*** do they mean by calling it “harmless?” Is it, ‘we have no humanity whatsoever’ harmless? Or ‘we are as degenerated as our target audience’ harmless? Or is it ‘it’s a terrible, terrible world for women’ harmless?
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