"They appear incredibly realistic. It appears inevitable that such images of me will be circulated online.”
Nothing, they say, is inherently good or bad, it’s how the thing is used that makes it so.
Like the 9mil Ruger under your bed or the hydrocodone on your cabinet.
It’s certainly true of the phone in your hand. Digital technologies afford us our daily dose of family friendly surfing website BeachGrit.
That’s good.
But such tech also breeds rats who scurry around the dark edges of the web sniffing out places to gnaw on the innocent.
And that’s bad.
Enter Mariana Rocha, surfing pro, 2017 Portuguese champ, and victim of rats. The twenty-six-year-old is being blackmailed for five large in exchange for withholding from the world AI-generated nude deepfakes of her.
It’s a high-tech, low-brow shakedown of the poor girl.
She recently received a series of anonymous texts accompanied by the forged nude pics:
“It will be sent to your family.
“Friends.
“Sponsors.
“And the hotel your city is…
“Unless we make a deal now.”
Surfing star Mariana told the cons that she didn’t have the green but they’re still threatening her with the release of the images.
“I’m in emotional hell,” she says. “I’ve been experiencing tremendous turmoil.”
She admits that, “Honestly, they appear incredibly realistic. It appears inevitable that such images of me will be circulated online.”
Still, she ain’t giving in to the extortion play. In fact, Mariana has gone public to support other women in the same dilemma.
“Recently, I’ve encountered the darker aspects of our evolving world. What’s most alarming is the prevalence of this issue affecting many. I want to bring my experience to light because I believe this new form of harassment similarly victimizes others.”
It’s a brave move, one that might push other victims to fight against a growing number of online attackers.
Deepfake AI bribery scams are on the rise. According to the World Economic forum deepfake videos are increasing at an annual rate of 900 per cent.
In 2022, the FBI received 7,000 reports of AI-related “financial sextortion” against minors. And what once required hundreds of images to create a false image of someone now can be done with just a single photo posted to the web. (I confess, if this happens to me, I just hope that my abs look tight, glutes shining.)
Ms. Rocha currently runs the organization The Proud Surfers in Women in Africa, a wonderful organization, albeit with a misleading name. The group aims to empower girls through a mix of therapy and surfing. Mariana’s got better things to do than waste her time with these crooks.
“Watch out,” she warns. “These fucking hackers are destroying lives, destroying dreams.
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She only sees it as destroying lives because she’s young.
This will be done to anyone and everyone.
Just like a scene template (3d movie) and they put your “mesh” on it – made simply from pictures of you, possibly ones just found on the internet.
The world leaders have this done all the time.
Just gotta get over it.
She should just tell them to go ahead and send the photos to whoever. Their only power is in her expressed fear of them being sent. No fear, no monetary value. Better yet, offer them a hamsammish!
I want 1 Million Dollars, or I’ll release nude photos of myself.
And trust me, you do not want that to happen.
“you’ve been flagged, for potential self-flaggeration…”
(#channel bottom has no ass-at-all.)
How many of you sick deprived bastards just googled Mariana Roche Nude..
Despicable.
Does this story pass the sniff test?
This woman seems like a weird target for a deepfake nude leak.
a)Nobody knows who she is, and she’s average looking at best. Seems like a very weird target for extortion.
b)In one instance she calls the extortionists “hackers”…. hmmm…aren’t they supposed to be deepfakers? Hackers would suggest leakers, not deepfake artists. Nothing needs to be hacked to make a deepfake.
c)The images are fake, yet “incredibly realistic” she says. Hm. Well, once again, if these deepfakers (“hackers”?) are so talented why was she the target? Couldn’t their talents have gone to better use elsewhere?
NOT THAT I’M SAYING THIS IS HAPPENING HERE, BUT, one has to wonder if someone who found out their nude photos fell into the wrong hands (i.e. their phone got hacked) might then go about claiming there are deepfake nudes being passed around… i.e. preemptive damage control?
I mean, basically any person holding any sort of sensitive occupation can now just claim to their boss, “Those photos of the 5:1 guy to girl anal gangbang that just popped up in your email are not of me, they’re just deepfakes.”
Is that how this works from now on?
You read it here first… Actually, you can read it here first:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/ne…
That’s six and a half “just asking questions” questions in a single post. You’re not fooling anyone, Tucker Carlson!
Can’t cuck the Tuck…
Wow thanks, that was incredibly smart and articulate. Please tell us all what you think of israel vs hamas, or the covid pandemic. Wait, let me grab a chair.
If I get an email like that from any of the young ladies that work for me, their position is safe
There’s this one teenager kid from thr US who was literally a nobody and ended up killing himself after he was blackmailed for similar stuff. It’s the new trend.
NOONE I’ve ever met from an African Country, says; “I’m from ‘Africa”! Could you low iq twats be a little more clear about your aspirations, and virtue signaling…..
Good point!
Photos or it didn’t happen.
Proud African woman speaks for all: “We don’t have any money.”
https://i.pinimg.com/origin…