Meta Ran Ads for an App Promising to Nudify Female Politicians
The ads ran for up to 46 hours and drew fewer than 10 impressions in most cases, according to Meta’s ad library.
- Meta platforms recently ran advertisements for Kromix, an AI tool that generated deepfaked videos of female US politicians in sexualized scenarios, before removing the ads after WIRED inquired about the campaign.
- Marketed as an "AI image styler," Kromix allows paid users to upload photos for explicit content generation, with advertisements exclusively targeting male users and promising "no restrictions."
- The account, created August 3 with no followers, ran 32 ads between five and 46 hours; Meta's automated review system failed to flag the campaign before publication.
- Katie Paul, director of the Tech Transparency Project, which discovered the ads, said the campaign reflects a broader trend of "all the characters are real people" being sexualized in AI-generated porn.
- Officials in Sweden, England, and Northern Ireland faced similar attacks in January, when Grok created around 3 million sexualized images; San Francisco's city attorney is demanding removal of 13 deepfake apps.
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Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians
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Meta Ad Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
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