Hundreds of apps hide sexually abusive deepfake features

WIRED found roughly 400 apps and websites tied to Chinese-language developers that appear to be ordinary AI tools but conceal secret features for generating violent, sexually abusive deepfake images and video, highlighting how widely consumer AI tools are being misused.

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