There has been a sharp rise in so-called "nudification" technology. These AI-powered tools can generate realistic fake images and videos that depict people as undressed, often without their knowledge or consent. William Brangham reports on the growing concern over the technology and the efforts underway to rein it in.Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors.
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There has been a sharp rise in so-called nudification technology. These A.I.-powered tools can generate realistic fake images and videos that depict people as undressed, often without their knowledge or consent.William Brangham reports on the growing concern over that technology and efforts to rein it in.
William Brangham:
As the types and uses of this technology have grown, lawmakers at both the state and federal level have tried to draft laws to curtail it, but that has proven to be very difficult.So, to help us understand this current landscape, we are joined by Kolina Koltai. She's an investigative journalist for the news site Bellingcat, and she has been covering this issue closely.Kolina, thank you so much for being here.Could you help us just understand at first what these technologies are, what they do, and how they do it?
