“This is now something that a community has embedded into a messaging platform app and therefore they have pushed forward the usability and the ease to access this type of technology,” Patrini says. The Telegram bot is powered by external servers, Sensity says, meaning it lowers the barrier of entry. “In a way, it is literally deepfakes as a service.”
Telegram did not answer questions about the bot and the abusive images it produces. Sensity’s report also says the company did not respond when it reported the bot and channels several months ago. The company has a limited set of terms of service. One of its three bullet points says that people should not “post illegal pornographic content on publicly viewable Telegram channels, bots, etc.”
In an expanded set of frequently asked questions Telegram says it does process requests to take down “illegal public content.” It adds that Telegram chats and group chats are private and the company doesn’t process requests related to them, however, channels and bots are publicly available. A section on takedowns says “we can take down porn bots.”
Before the publication of this article the Telegram channel which pushed out daily galleries of bot-generated deepfake images saw all of the messages within it removed. It is not clear who these were removed by.
For this sort of activity there is usually some data on who has used the bot and their intentions. Within the Telegram channels linked to the bot there is a detailed “privacy policy” and people using t ..
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