A group of Reddit users were recently fooled by an AI-generated woman named “Cl4ud14” or “Claudia” into paying for her nude photographs.
The account on Reddit posted several photographs on select mature subreddit forums, with users offering her cash for more explicit content. One user even asked Claudia out on a date and boasted about earning a six-figure salary.
Although some users were sharp enough to notice the unnatural appearance of the photographs, others refused to heed the signs, leading to Claudia earning around $100 before being called out as an AI-generated fake.
Claudia was created by two computer science students using Stable Diffusion, an AI platform that can create photo-like images by using text prompts. The duo combined these images with AI-generated text pieces about Claudia's sexual fantasies and escapades, uploading them to various subreddit forums, where they quickly spread among the more lust-filled users.
Unfortunately, this trend of using AI image generators for pornographic material has become increasingly widespread, with Stable Diffusion becoming a heavily-utilized tool in the creation of digital risqué photos.
On a more disturbing note, there have also been incidents of some users creating indecent content featuring children or child-like individuals and sharing them with like-minded individuals.
