According to a report by 404 Media and covered by Mashable, an erotic chatbot and AI image generator named Secret Desires left nearly two million images and videos exposed to the public. The popular platform, which promises “spicy AI chatting,” had left cloud storage containers containing photos, women’s names, and other personal information such as workplaces and universities vulnerable.
The report describes this as a “massive leak” and the latest case of generative AI tools being used to create nonconsensual explicit deepfakes from innocent photos. The exposed media included images of real influencers, public figures, and non-famous women, with some content derived from Snapchat screenshots and at least one yearbook photo. The leak also contained user-generated AI images, including those created with a “faceswap” feature that Secret Desires had removed earlier in the year.
Secret Desires is one of the most popular AI porn sites, and like many others which began as a NSFW AI roleplay platform, now has advanced image AND video generation. 404 Media found that the AI-generated media in the exposed storage containers were mostly explicit, with some file names including some dubious terms.
On the homepage FAQ section, Secret Desires assures prospective members that their data is subjected to bank-level encryption and strict security protocols. This hack and leak is a reminder that your conversations and creations are. in fact, not guaranteed to be secure on these sites.
The company did not respond to 404 Media’s request for comment. However, the files became inaccessible approximately an hour after the publication reached out for a statement.
Read more at Mashable.