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News & Explainers
Charities experiencing an increase in reports of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes
Online charities are seeing an increase in victims of sexual deepfakes, creating new challenges for their organisations.
New federal laws in the US could criminalise explicit AI deepfakes
Two bills to help victims of nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes have now passed through Congress.
The law on nonconsensual sexual deepfakes is changing in the UK
A new law in England and Wales is set to criminalise the creation of sexually explicit deepfakes.
What is a nonconsensual sexual deepfake and how are they made?
AI is being used to create thousands of sexually explicit videos and images – and it’s only getting easier, more accessible, and more realistic. But what is a nonconsensual sexual deepfake, and how are they made?
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Features
Studies find alarming gender bias in AI systems
Researchers are suggesting AI tools hold damaging systemic bias against women and minority groups.
An interview with deepfake documentary director, Reuben Hamlyn
Can deepfake technology be used to protect deepfake victims? Director Reuben Hamlyn thinks so.
Digital Defamation: How deepfakes are being used to silence women and girls
Journalists and campaigners are being targeted by explicit deepfakes, and it’s increasingly spreading as a tactic to silence everyday women and girls too.
Headless Women: The growing impact of deepfakes on the adult entertainment industry
Women’s faces are being taken and manipulated to create nonconsensual sexual deepfakes, but porn stars’ bodies are too.
The Men Behind The Screens: How online communities drive nonconsensual sexual deepfake creation
“If you edit this image, I’ll do one of your girls.” Inside the online forums fueling the creation, distribution, and exchange of pornographic deepfakes.