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Would you be willing to share one of these videos? Our research group is studying the use and abuse of DeepFakes in the wild and we'd love to be able to do some analysis on this incident. Feel free to shoot me an email at brendandg@nyu.edu
I will ask for her permission to share it with you.
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This account? https://www.instagram.com/chucky/ Are you sure the account and username were given and not just the username?
Account was deleted and user name handed over
This happened to my wife too and her IG profile was used to create a deepfake on onlyfans
Had an account not hacked, but copied pictures (only using bikini pictures), choose a similar username and followed all followers with an invite to a porn site (though I did not follow the link to see, it could not have been more explicit in what was being offered). Instagram "reviewed the report and decided it did not violate their terms of service" and refused to take any further action.
Really messed up stuff.
I was doxxed and harassed for my Insta account. Eventually one day it was just taken even though I had 2 factor auth on Insta and email. There is basically no recourse. Oh and it was given to one of mr beasts (from YouTube) helpers…
Probably inside job at IG tbh. Multiple reports over the years of desirable IG usernames being taken from legit users and handed to the friends of IG employees
I have a 3 letter instagram name and the amount of spam and attacks I get is insane... I get hundreds of password reset emails from instagram daily and constant DMs and follow requests from scammer and bot accounts.
I've tried contacting instagram about it several times but they never respond. Had to blackhole emails from security@mail.instagram.com to prevent my mail server filling up.
I was doxxed and harassed for my Insta account. Eventually one day it was just taken even though I had 2 factor auth on Insta and email. There is basically no recourse. Oh and it was given to one of mr beasts (from YouTube) helpers…
Probably inside job at IG tbh. Multiple reports over the years of desirable IG usernames being taken from legit users and handed to the friends of IG employees
frankly, i think this is where decentralized networks can help us. 1. networks where global reach to total strangers is not even possible, or at least is not the default. the vast majority of people only really want to reach their “friends of friends” anyway. this eliminates a lot of would-be hackers from even knowing you exist. 2. accounts that are unhackable because users log in with private keys instead of user/pa…
frankly, i think this is where decentralized networks can help us. 1. networks where global reach to total strangers is not even possible, or at least is not the default. the vast majority of people only really want to reach their “friends of friends” anyway. this eliminates a lot of would-be hackers from even knowing you exist. 2. accounts that are unhackable because users log in with private keys instead of user/pa…