A year-old Singaporean woman, who posted an innocuous selfie on social media over a year ago, found the same image last week on a sex forum but in this she was naked. The woman, who wanted to be called Rose, was shocked and disgusted after The New Paper told her about the nude picture. There are several Singaporean women along with Rose who became victims of such incidents as they found out that their pictures were first stolen from social media platforms and then doctored and uploaded to the sex forum.
Some of these obscene pictures were also circulated on pornographic websites. These nude pictures are believed to have been changed by using an app called DeepNude , which allows users to create naked images of women in a single click.
It should be noted that in this online app, the programmer used neural networks to remove the clothing of women from images and due to its sleazy nature and it has been downloaded by thousands of users within a short period of time. The creator of DeepNude app listed theirs as Estonia but shut down the operation in June after facing backlash on social media.
They stated that the app was created only for entertainment purpose and they did not expect that it would go viral. But the problem is, even though they stopped the operation, several versions of DeepNude app have been shared via download links on the sex forum and these platforms have a high number of visitors from Singapore.
In the case of the naked images of Rose, she believes that the circulation of her doctored picture had led to a recent surge in followers on her social media accounts. Now she wants to make her social accounts private. As per the New Paper, a lawyer, Fong Wei Li said that using such apps to change someone's photo to make them appear naked is a criminal offence similar to taking a nude picture according to the law.
