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Under the Hood: Using Open Measures to Investigate AI Deepfake Discussions on 4chan

Does banning, or even criminalizing, online abuse actually make it go away? Or does it just drive that activity into places that are harder to see?

Open Measures senior researcher Jared Holt shares how he used our platform to research a recent piece we put out with the American Sunlight Project that examined how 4chan users have discussed producing synthetic nonconsensual intimate images — aka “deepfake porn — as doing so becomes legally riskier.

You can read that story, below:

4chan Users Are Sharing Tools and Tips for Homebrewing AI Deepfake Porn

4chan Users Are Sharing Tools and Tips for Homebrewing AI Deepfake Porn

Users on 4chan’s “Technology” board have shown heightened interest in tools and techniques for using generative artificial intelligence models to create their own “deepfake porn” in recent months, new analysis from Open Measures and the American Sunlight Project

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