Imagine this. You are a 16-year-old girl, a sophomore in high school and some boy who has been hitting on you, and whom you have turned down, takes a picture of you with his iPhone one day unbeknownst to you, and a few days later you discover that half the boys in your high school have been looking at a porn video of you having sex. Or you are a 24-year-old man, who just got a promotion that another man had wanted, and a week later, over lunch, a friend shows you a porn video of you having sex with two underage boys that someone anonymously sent him. Fakeporn is becoming a huge problem, particularly for young women but for men and boys as well. All it takes is a picture of your face that you may not even know exists. As this report describes this is happening to hundreds of thousands of people every year and the incidence of fake porn is growing unbelievably. This is an aspect of the misinformation crisis that is shaping our culture, and the culture of other nations every day. The societies of the world, particularly in countries like the United States that are universally dependent on smartphones, tablets, and computers, are being influenced by misinformation and don’t seem to have a clue about how to handle this.
Google’s and Microsoft’s search engines have a problem with deepfake porn videos. Since deepfakes emerged half a decade ago, the technology has consistently been used to abuse and harass women—using machine learning to morph someone’s head into pornography without their permission. Now the number of nonconsensual deepfake porn videos is growing at an exponential rate, fueled by the advancement of AI technologies and an expanding deepfake ecosystem.
A new analysis of nonconsensual deepfake porn videos, conducted by an independent researcher and shared with WIRED, shows how pervasive the videos have become. At least 244,625 videos have been uploaded to the top 35 websites set up either exclusively or partially to host deepfake porn videos in the past seven years, according to the researcher, who requested anonymity to avoid being targeted online.
Over the first nine months of this year, 113,000 videos were uploaded to the websites—a 54 percent increase on the 73,000 videos uploaded in all of 2022. By the end of this year, the analysis forecasts, more videos will have been produced in 2023 than the total number of every […]
Albus Eddie
on Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 10:11 am
This is fraud through and through. As difficult as it may be to combat, there must be mechanisms in place for victims to combat this, but more importantly for those who profit from such fraud to be penalized.
This is fraud through and through. As difficult as it may be to combat, there must be mechanisms in place for victims to combat this, but more importantly for those who profit from such fraud to be penalized.