Deepfake technology and AI in pornography target children for abuse, coercion, extortion and trauma
0“An offender can take a picture of your child from a soccer game and convert it into a child (pornographic) video.” — Corrine St. Thomas Stowers, former Supervising Intelligence Analyst The term “deepfake” was coined in 2017 by an internet user who helped spark a particularly onerous development in virtual technology. By using open-source images of celebrities and inserting them into explicit images and video, a new and lucrative industry was launched. Since then, with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence technology, or AI, it has only become worse. According to Italian technology company Deeptrace, pornography in 2019 accounted for…
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