Once upon a time, the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan declared "the medium is the message." The South Korean generative AI website GenNomis went offline this week, after a researcher uncovered tens of thousands of fake pornographic images created by its software, Nudify. The photos were found in an unsecured database, and included explicit images bearing the likeness of celebrities, politicians, random women, and children. Jeremiah Fowler, the cybersecurity researcher who found the cache, says he immediately sent a responsible disclosure notice to GenNomis and its parent company, AI-Nomis, who then restricted the database from public access. Later, just hours after […]