

“I take a caveat emptor approach with these things,” the moderator tells Rolling Stone. (In this case, the text prompt was a selfie of a woman in her house “without makeup with black hair, shoulder length hair, simple background, straight hair, hair bangs.”) Her post on r/faces prompted a firestorm of users reporting the post, leading a moderator for the group, who asked not to be named, to post a disclaimer clarifying that AI-generated photos are not against the subreddit’s rules. We honestly didn’t think it would get this much traction.”Ĭlaudia was created by Stable Diffusion, an AI program that uses machine learning to generate shockingly realistic-looking photos using nothing but a text prompt. “You could compare it to the vtubers, they create their own characters and play as an entirely different person. “You could say this whole account is just a test to see if you can fool people with AI pictures,” says the team behind Claudia, who declined to disclose their real names. They made about $100 selling her nudes until other redditors called out the account, though they continue to post lewds on other subreddits. She’s the brainchild of two computer science students who tell Rolling Stone they essentially made up the account as a joke, after coming across a post on Reddit from a guy who made $500 catfishing users with photos of real women. Sorry to ruin the surprise, I guess.”Ĭlaudia is, indeed, an AI-generated creation, who has posted her (AI-generated) lewd photos on other subreddits, including r/normalnudes and r/amihot. “This is literally an AI creation, if you’ve worked with AI image models and making your own long enough, you can 10000% tell. “For those who aren’t aware, I’m going to kill your fantasy,” the comment reads. With her alabaster skin, delicate features, and vaguely indie hairstyle, she looks exactly like someone the average Redditor would obsess over, and indeed, the comments on Claudia’s post on the subreddit r/faces are all variations of, “hot” and “you’re very gorgeous.” Except for one. She’s got straight black bangs and giant blue-green eyes, with just the socially appropriate amount of cleavage sticking out of her grey tank top. “F/19 feeling pretty today,” Claudia’s post reads.
