This is a thread about how deepfake porn is ruining women’s lives—and how the law may finally ban it. technologyreview.com/2021/02/12/101…
While deepfakes have received enormous attention for their potential political dangers, the vast majority of them are used to target women. technologyreview.com/2019/10/10/132…
.@sensityai, a research company that has tracked online deepfake videos since December of 2018, has consistently found that between 90% and 95% of them are nonconsensual porn. sensity.ai/how-to-detect-…
About 90% of that is nonconsensual porn of women.
“This is a violence-against-women issue,” says @adamrdodge, the founder of #EndTAB, a nonprofit that educates people about technology-enabled abuse.
In its consequences, deepfake porn can be as devastating as revenge porn—real intimate photos released without consent. This takes a well-documented toll on victims.
In some cases, victims had to change their names. In others, they’ve had to completely remove themselves from the internet. They constantly fear being retraumatized, because at any moment the images could resurface and once again ruin their lives.
Fortunately, parallel movements in the US and UK are gaining momentum to ban nonconsensual deepfake porn.
That’s significant because today there are few legal options for victims of nonconsensual deepfake porn.
In the US, 46 states have some ban on revenge porn, but only Virginia’s and California’s include faked and deepfaked media. In the UK, revenge porn is banned, but the law doesn’t encompass anything that’s been faked. cybercivilrights.org/revenge-porn-l…
The attention could also help ban other forms of image-based sexual violence, which have previously been neglected.
After years of activists’ efforts to alert lawmakers to these egregious legal gaps, deepfakes are finally forcing them to pay attention. technologyreview.com/2021/02/12/101…
The content in this thread is an excerpt from @_KarenHao’s story on deepfake porn. You can read the full story in its entirety here: technologyreview.com/2021/02/12/101…
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