Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
Wired reports that Meta ran advertisements for an AI app called Kromix, which allowed users to create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfake imagery of women. The ads specifically targeted male users and featured a likeness of a prominent female US politician before being removed following media inquiry.
Why it matters
This highlights the ongoing struggle of major social media platforms to moderate AI-generated content and prevent the proliferation of nonconsensual intimate imagery.
The tool, which is called Kromix, bills itself as an “AI image styler.” A voice-over for one of the video advertisements, viewed by WIRED, promotes the tool as having “no restrictions,” saying “all the characters are real people” and describing it as “the AI that men actually use.” In one ad, a woman closely resembling a prominent female US politician is seen in front of a US flag and the flag of the president of the US above the caption “What if she moved?” She then winks, before the ad cuts to a scene of a woman with the same face performing in a pornographic video.
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