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Dear Fellow Engineers,

We didn’t become engineers to dehumanize, degrade, or destroy.

But right now, we’re at a turning point. Technologies that were once created in the spirit of innovation and imagination are being twisted into tools of violation, exploitation, and abuse.

From DeepFaceLab to StyleGAN, from LoRA fine-tuned on stolen imagery to Stable Diffusion pipelines trained to strip people’s dignity—these tools are being weaponized for one of the darkest sides of the internet: the non-consensual generation of pornographic images and videos.

We Are the Builders. But What Are We Building?

As engineers, we know the power of what we create. Yet some of the most advanced generative tools of our time are being trained and shared publicly with zero accountability, sometimes even encouraged by developer communities in the name of “freedom” and “open-source ethics.”

Let’s be clear:

There is nothing ethical about releasing a nudification model trained on stolen images.
There is no freedom in enabling the violation of someone’s bodily autonomy through AI.

Disturbing Incidents That Demand Action

• In 2023, a viral case from South Korea revealed that high school students had used AI apps to generate nude images of classmates, causing national outrage and leading to emergency legislative reviews.
• In India, a 2024 incident involved AI-generated pornographic content falsely linked to a prominent woman journalist. Despite her public denial, the damage to her reputation was irreversible and the videos are still circulating.
• A 2022 report from The Washington Post detailed how GitHub repositories were hosting step-by-step guides and pre-trained models to create deepfake pornography, openly accessible for months before takedown.
• YouTube and Telegram have been complicit too: multiple channels and groups are actively promoting NSFW AI-generated content, some under the guise of “art” or “AI experiments.” Many remain online despite repeated reports.

• In 2023, a viral case involved AI-generated nude images of Indian schoolgirls circulated on messaging apps. Despite outrage, police action was limited and delayed.

• Bollywood actresses and news anchors have had their faces superimposed on explicit videos using open-source AI tools. These videos resurface across adult sites and are difficult to remove.

• A YouTube channel with hundreds of thousands of views was recently discovered publishing AI-generated pornographic avatars, many resembling real women without consent.

• Multiple GitHub repositories continue to host nudification models with pre-trained weights under misleading names, escaping moderation.

We Must Act—Not Later, But Now

Report:
If you come across GitHub repos, Hugging Face models, Civitai LoRAs, or other public datasets/tools created with the intent of nudification, deepfake porn, or targeting individuals, report them immediately to platform moderators.

Refuse to Contribute:
Do not support, fork, or star repositories that even subtly hint at NSFW exploitation. Your one star validates misuse.

Call Out:
Challenge colleagues or friends who engage in or support the development of such tools. Stay respectful, but firm. Your silence is permission.

Appeal to Hosting Platforms:
Email, tag, or write to GitHub, Hugging Face, and other hosts. Ask them to ban or restrict AI models trained for NSFW or exploitative purposes, unless under strict license and regulation.

We appeal to you—NVIDIA, Stability AI, Meta, OpenAI, and others:

You are shaping the future. Will it be humane, or horrific?

• Do not release foundation models without safeguards.

• Do not allow NSFW or "uncensored" forks without hard boundaries.

• Do not sit silent while your tech enables harassment, revenge porn, or worse.

You owe more than disclaimers. You owe the world accountability.

Being an engineer doesn't mean you "just build the thing."
It means you understand the impact of what you build—and you choose humanity first.

Let’s build with conscience. Let’s build with care.
Let’s draw the line now, not when it’s too late.

If you’re an engineer who believes in ethics, decency, and dignity—speak up.
Share this. Post your own version. Report unethical code. Educate others.
And help make engineering a force for humanity—not harm.

Because if we don’t act, who will?

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