"100,000 People Are Using a Telegram Bot That Makes AI Cumshot Videos of Anyone", 5 May 2025

A Telegram bot that does nothing but AI generate nonconsensual short videos of men ejaculating on women’s faces has more than 150,000 monthly active users. 

Only after this article was first published did Telegram reply to my request for comment, ask for the bot's name, and remove it.

Telegram bots that produce nonconsensual pornography are common, but this particular bot is notable for amassing 115,016 users in just a few weeks and for making the bleeding edge of AI video generation cheap and easy to access for nefarious means. The bot’s popularity also shows how quickly “open” AI tools released by tech giants are being adopted to cause harm.

The size of the bot’s audience, and the rapid speed at which it grew, shows just how quickly abusive tools like this are spreading across Telegram and the communities that use them. It also shows how Telegram is one of the major platforms where this abuse takes place, despite this content technically violating its terms of service.

... As I previously reported, in late February the Chinese tech giant Alibaba released an open weights AI video generation model called Wan 2.1, which was quickly modified to create several AI video generation models dedicated to creating porn. About 24 hours after Alibaba released Wan 2.1, those porn AI models started appearing on Civitai, a site for sharing modified AI models that multiple 404 Media investigations have shown is widely used by people who create nonconsensual content. 

As I reported in March, the users in the Telegram channel have been sharing nonconsensual AI videos created with a variety of apps that are available via the Apple App Store since 2024, but since Wan 2.1 was released, an increasing number of users in the Telegram channel have been sharing nonconsensual AI generated videos they say use modified Wan 2.1 models that are shared on Civitai. 

AI-generated videos of men ejaculating on celebrity women’s faces have been particularly popular in the Telegram channel seemingly because they are easier to produce and more convincing. ...

In mid-April, similar AI-generated videos started flooding the Telegram channel but with a watermark with a URL, registered April 18, that directed users to the Telegram bot that now has 115,016 users. Another Telegram channel with an almost identical name and logo was banned by Telegram sometime in April for violating its terms of service.

"Illegal pornography and the tools to make it are forbidden by Telegram's terms of service and are removed whenever discovered," a Telegram spokesperson told me after this article was published. "Moderators empowered with custom AI and machine learning tools proactively monitor public parts of the platform and accept reports in order to remove millions of pieces of harmful content each day."

After this article was initially published, Telegram reached out to me and asked for the bot's name, indicating it could not find it on its own. After I provided Telegram with the bot, it removed it. At that point the bot had 150,000 users.

Users who join the bot’s Telegram channel get one free credit that allows them to generate one of these videos. All they have to do is upload a still image and the bot will generate it within minutes. ...

Cumshot AI bots are an evolution of “tributes,” where people physically ejaculate on photographs of women and share videos of it online. Women who’ve been targeted by tributes have said they find it disturbing at its mildest and serious harassment and threatening at worst. Sometimes tributes escalate to threats of violence and rape.

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While nonconsensual AI-generated adult content violates Telegram’s policies, and while the company has taken action on such channels and bots before, they are still very common on the platform. I did a quick search while researching this article and found various such bots, including an “undress” bot with more than 170,000 monthly users. 

Alibaba did not respond to a request for comment.

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