In a 2019 report, Sensity – an Amsterdam-based company with AI and deepfake expertise – showed that 96 percent of deepfake videos are sexual and produced without consent. In 99 percent of cases, it is women who are affected. Women being targeted for deepfake films is significantly more common than politicians being targeted.
It is now possible, for a few dollars, to create porn videos with anyone who has a bunch of photos of themselves posted on the Internet. Movies with celebrity faces are available in large quantities for around $5. In chat forums, customized videos are being offered with any person on Instagram with less than 2 million followers, a so-called "personal girl", for 65 dollars.
It is unfortunate that it is called fake because it is a very real abuse; the face belongs to a real person. Desperate young women are regularly alerted to the existence of nude photos and pornographic images of people who look exactly like them, and are named as them. This can of course contribute to immense harmful effects in terms of stress, mental health and self-image. Which in turn can have further tragic consequences.
My blog post from June:
https://axbom.com/deepfake-porn/
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