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Stable Diffusion Abused by 4chan Users to Deepfake Celebrity Porn

AI Incident Database · article · Aug 24, 2022 · UTC

Stable Diffusion, an open-source image generation model by Stability AI, was reportedly leaked on 4chan prior to its release date, and was used by its users to generate pornographic deepfakes of celebrities.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2022-08-17T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.

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2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z

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