An app that claimed to be able to digitally remove the clothes from pictures of women to create fake nudes has been taken offline by its creators, according to a BBC report.
The $50 Deepnude app won attention and criticism because of an article by tech news site ‘Motherboard’, the report added.
One campaigner against so-called revenge porn called the app “terrifying”.
The developers confessed the app was created as “entertainment” a few months ago. But they have now removed the software from the internet, saying the world was not ready for it.
“The probability that people will misuse it is too high,” the developers wrote in a Twitter message. “We don’t want to make money this way.”
Anyone who bought the app would get a refund, they said, adding that there would be no other versions of it available and the right of anyone else to use it was withdrawn.
The developers also urged people who had a copy not to share it, although the app will still work for anyone who owns it.
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