Photo apps digitally undressing women, sexualized text-to-image prompts creating "AI girls" and manipulated images fueling "sextortion" rackets — a boom in deepfake porn is outpacing US and European efforts to regulate the technology.
Artificial intelligence-enabled deepfakes are typically associated with fake viral images of well-known personalities such as Pope Francis in a puffer coat or Donald Trump under arrest, but experts say they are more widely used for generating non-consensual porn that can destroy ordinary lives.
Women are a particular target of AI tools and apps — widely available for free and requiring no technical expertise — that allow users to digitally strip off clothing from their pictures, or insert their faces into sexually explicit videos.
"The rise of AI-generated porn and deepfake porn normalizes the use of a woman's image or likeness without her consent," Sophie Maddocks, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania tracking image-based sexual abuse, told AFP.
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