The Deepfake Pipeline: Tracking the Technology Behind Non-Consensual Intimate Images

A new review maps the complex web of technologies enabling the creation and dissemination of AI-generated sexual abuse material, revealing how efforts to combat it often feel like a futile game of whack-a-mole.


![In large language models, dynamic instability during inference-manifested as abrupt shifts in next-token probability distributions and increased uncertainty-can be quantified via a diagnostic signal [latex]I\_t = D\_t + \lambda H\_t[/latex], where [latex]D\_t[/latex] measures distributional shift and [latex]H\_t[/latex] represents uncertainty, with the overall instability strength [latex]S = \max\_t I\_t[/latex] correlating with increased failure risk and the timing of instability episodes offering insights into potential recoverability.](https://arxiv.org/html/2602.02863v1/figures/Fig1.png)





![Across oceanic basins from 2012 to 2017, a comparative analysis using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and U-Nets demonstrates a strong correlation between remotely sensed chlorophyll saturation [latex]log(ChlSat)[/latex] and reconstructed chlorophyll concentrations [latex]log(Chl)[/latex], indicating the potential for accurate chlorophyll estimation via these distinct deep learning architectures.](https://arxiv.org/html/2602.04689v1/Fig2.png)