Many jurisdictions are currently drafting or have passed laws specifically criminalizing the creation and distribution of deepfake pornography.
A deepfake is synthetic media – images, video or audio – generated by artificial intelligence using . The term combines “deep” from “deep learning” (a type of machine learning involving multiple layers of neural networks) and “fake” because the content does not correspond to reality. These algorithms are trained on large datasets of real media, enabling them to learn and replicate a person’s facial features, expressions and mannerisms with extraordinary precision. For pornographic deepfakes, a common technique is to take a publicly available photo of a victim, feed it into a generative adversarial network (GAN) or a diffusion model, and “map” the victim’s face onto a nude body sourced from a pre‑existing dataset. The result is often so realistic that it can be virtually impossible to distinguish from an authentic photograph, especially at low resolution or in brief video clips.
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