“It's a depressing validation of all the fears that those of us who had heard about this technology brought up at the beginning,” says Mary Anne Franks, a professor of law at the University of Miami. A premium version costs around $8 for 112 images, Sensity says. The bot is free to use although it limits people to ten images per day and payments have to be made to remove watermarks from images. Sensity’s analysis says the technology only works on images of women. The images are automatically created once people upload a clothed image of the victim to the Telegram bot from their phone or desktop. The process is automated and can be used by anyone – it’s as simple as uploading an image to any messaging service. Unlike other non-consensual explicit deepfake videos, which have racked up millions of views on porn websites, these images require no technical knowledge to create.
