SNEACI: Synthetic Non-Consensual Explicit Imagery

• SNEACI is synthetic explicit media generated by AI that depicts real individuals without their consent.
• It presents significant ethical and legal issues by constituting a non-consensual form of image-based sexual abuse.
• Recent literature explores varied labels and definitions, reflecting diverse scopes and policy framings to combat this technological abuse.

Searching arXiv for the cited papers and topic to ground the article in current research. Synthetic Non-Consensual Sexually Explicit Imagery (SNEACI) denotes synthetic intimate or sexually explicit media depicting a real person without that person’s consent. One paper gives the explicit definition that “Synthetic non-consensual explicit AI-Created imagery, or SNEACI, refers to images or videos that depict a nude or semi-nude subject, including those that contain intimate body parts and/or depict the subject engaged in a sexual act, without the subject’s consent” (Gibson et al., 2024). Across the recent literature, closely related labels include non-consensual synthetic intimate imagery (NSII), synthetic non-consensual explicit imagery (SNCEI), AI-generated non-consensual intimate images (AIG-NCII), and synthetic non-consensual intimate imagery (SNCII), with variation reflecting differences in scope, modality, and policy framing rather than disagreement that the phenomenon is a form of image-based sexual abuse and technology