Tech bros need to realise deepfake porn ruins lives – and the law has to catch up

Taylor Swift is just one of countless victims of deepfake videos. Firms feeding off this abuse should pay for the harm they causeImagine finding that someone has taken a picture of you from the internet and superimposed it on a sexually explicit image available online. Or that a video appears showing you having sex with someone you have never met.Imagine worrying that your children, partner, parents or colleagues might see this and believe it is really you. And that your frantic attempts to take it off social media keep failing, and the fake “you” keeps reappearing and multiplying. Imagine realising that these images could remain online for ever and discovering that no laws exist to prosecute the people who created it.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - Category: Science Authors: Tags: Deepfake Global development Artificial intelligence (AI) Consciousness Computing Technology Science Pornography Society Women's rights and gender equality Taylor Swift Human rights Law Music Culture Source Type: news