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A Thai university professor has pointed fingers at artificial intelligence for a doctored nude image of himself circulating on social media. The controversy unfolded after a Facebook news page, Big Kren, reported on a group called OutdoorHDY, allegedly producing pornographic content at various public sites in Songkhla province.

 

The group sparked outrage when reportedly staging a nude photoshoot at the Phra Phuttha Mongkhon Maharat Buddha statue, a sacred tourist spot in Songkhla. Amidst the public uproar, demands for police intervention emerged.

 

Further reports implicated a professor from the revered university in Songkhla’s Faculty of Humanities as being part of OutdoorHDY. A censored nude image, allegedly of the professor, showed him naked save for an Apple Watch, apparently taken at the university’s stadium.

 

The university was reportedly aware of the situation and urged media and staff for discretion to maintain its reputation. However, the institution later spoke to Channel 8, denying any cover-up and confirming that the implicated professor had resigned.

 

 

 

In a media interview on April 23, the professor, whose identity remains confidential, denied taking part in any nude photoshoot. He claimed the image was digitally altered using AI—a tool becoming notorious for fabricating such content. The professor suspects the culprit might be someone who has impersonated him online before, creating X (formerly Twitter) accounts in his name to release AI-generated explicit images.

 

The professor has filed a police report about the incident but awaits further updates from law enforcement. He clarified that his resignation was unrelated to the scandal, citing personal dissatisfaction with academia.

 

As this story unfolds, it highlights growing concerns over AI misuse in creating fabricated, damaging content while simultaneously drawing attention to deep-rooted issues of privacy and identity in the digital age.

 

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Thaiger 2025-04-24

 

 

 

Definitely need a confused emoji for this one.  

 

I assume he wasn't impressed with the AI (or A1 as the Yanks call it) effort to represent what is hidden by the big star.

18 hours ago, Will B Good said:

 

I assume he wasn't impressed with the AI (or A1 as the Yanks call it) effort to represent what is hidden by the big star.

AI exaggerated things too much to be real

exhibitionist !

AFAIK AI needs a human input to generate an image, again AFAIK AI also needs a human input to access any website, MSM or social media  to add the image and to post the image, because at this point, AI is still inanimate and it is unable to actually generate a post itself.

 

If anyone can be blamed. it is the person who posted the picture and the moderators (if any) who allowed the post to be sent in the first place.

It would be easy enough to see if it was his body or not.