the_leo•1mo agoMost Upvoted

Found a stat that 96% of deepfake videos are non-consensual porn

I was reading a report from Sensity AI last week and saw that 96% of all deepfakes online are porn without consent. That number really shocked me because most talk is about political fakes, not personal harm. How do we even start fixing this when the tech is so easy to use?

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felix4141mo ago

96% being purely nonconsensual porn is genuinely horrifying.

roberts.leo1mo ago

My friend found out her face was on one of those sites last year. Her boyfriend's coworker saw it and told him, which is how she even found out. She was just sitting at home minding her own business while some random guy from school had taken her Insta pics and deepfaked them. She had to take a week off work because she couldn't stop crying and felt like she couldn't go outside anymore. And the worst part was there was basically nothing the police could do about it because laws haven't caught up with this stuff yet. It's been months and she's still paranoid about anyone taking her picture in public now.

martin.riley1mo ago

That 96% stat really got me too. I kept thinking about the specific victims, like the 4Chan users who targeted female streamers back in 2018... names like Pokimane and Alinity had their faces put onto porn without permission. It's wild that something so personal and damaging is the main use for this tech, not the sci-fi political stuff everyone panics about. The sheer number of women affected just by that one forum alone makes me wonder how many thousands there are total. And the worst part is, most of them probably don't even know it exists.