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From fake nudes to fake quotes: AI deepfakes plagued Olympic athletes

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By Derek B. Johnson

While competing for medals and glory in Milan, Italy, U.S. Olympic athletes experienced something that is fast becoming a regular feature of modern public life: the widespread use of AI tools by politicians, trolls and sexual harassers to manipulate their images and voices

Users on 4chan and other sites quickly generated and shared “nudified” or sexualized imagery of multiple female U.S. athletes, including figure skaters Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn and Isabeau Levito, as well as skiers Mikaela Shiffrin and Eileen Gu (who competed for China).

Multiple research firms, including Graphika and Open Measures, tracked the posts and images on 4chan, a platform that automatically deletes posts and topic-specific boards after a set period.

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