Facebook and Instagram allowed ads featuring deepfake nude of Jenna Ortega at 16: report
Facebook and Instagram allowed images featuring a blurred deepfake nude of actress Jenna Ortega appearing as a teenager to advertise for an app that allows users to create fake explicit images of anyone with artificial intelligence.
The app called Perky AI — which has since been removed from the Apple app store — ran at least 11 ads on the two platforms last month that showed a blurred image of Ortega appearing to be topless at 16 years old, according to NBC News.
But the images of the “Wednesday” star were fake.
The ads demonstrated how users of the app could provide prompts like “no clothes” to create faux nudes of real people.
Other suggestions the advertisements offered for AI prompts included “latex costume” and “Batman underwear,” according to the news station.
Perky AI — which charges $7.99 a week or $29.99 for 12 weeks — advertised that it could create “NSFW,” meaning “not safe for work,” images by users’ requests.
Meta, the parent company for both social media platforms, suspended Perk app’s page after NBC News reached out to the company.
Before the account was suspended, the AI-powered app ran more than 260 different ads on the platform since September — 30 of which were previously suspended by Meta, according to the outlet.
One of the ads featuring the deepfake of Ortega, now 21, had more than 2,600 views on Instagram before it was taken down, the news station reported.
Another Perky ad displayed a manipulated and blurred image of singer Sabrina Carpenter, along with the same claim of using AI to show her without clothes, according to NBC News.
The disturbing ads are part of a growing problem with AI-manufactured deepfakes of girls and women online. Digitally created child pornography has been some of the worst cases as well as fake revenge porn from upset exes.
Meta said in a statement that the social media company “strictly prohibits child nudity, content that sexualizes children, and services offering AI-generated non-consensual nude images.”
“While this app remains widely available on various app stores, we’ve removed these ads and the accounts behind them,” Meta spokesperson Ryan Daniels told The Post.
Representatives for Ortega did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Apple also removed the Perky app — which it had found violated its policies around “overtly sexual or pornographic material” — from its app store.
