Deepfakes are images, videos, or audio which are edited or generated using artificial intelligence tools which can depict real or non-existent people
People who create sexually explicit ‘deepfakes’ could face prosecution as the Government bears down on online abuse.
The Government will also create new offences for the taking of intimate images without consent and the installation of equipment with intent to commit these offences. This comes as Channel 4 news reporter Cathy Newman discusses her experience of discovering deepfake pornography of herself online, which she found "haunting".
During the research, Cathy watched a video where her face had been superimposed onto pornography after colleagues stumbled across a deepfake porn video of her. “And they said ‘It’s on Google’, so I asked them to send me the link so I could have a look, opened it and, to my surprise, there was there an image of me.
“And then a lot of people came rushing forward and said ‘This is a major problem’, but it was never something I realised was an issue until that point, how big it was and how many people contacted me.” While it is already an offence to share – or threaten to share – an intimate image without consent, it is only an offence to take an image without consent in certain circumstances, such as upskirting.
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