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People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes. Instagram’s unwillingness to moderate AI-generated content finds a new low.


Instagram’s unwillingness to moderate AI-generated content finds a new low.

A network of Instagram accounts is using AI to steal content from human creators and deepfake their faces to make them look like they have Down syndrome. The AI-generated Down syndrome accounts are the latest and newest low for Instagram, which allows the rampant content theft that enables this practice and is now fueling a non-consensual fetishization and monetization of (fake) people with disabilities. Additionally, several Reels, which have been edited to make the woman in the videos look like she has down syndrome, were posted weeks earlier by a different account with an entirely different face.

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