AI Deepfake Technology Creates Fake Video of Naked Celebrities

AI Deepfake Technology Creates Fake Video of Naked Celebrities
Short Title	AI Deepfake Show Naked Celebrities
Location	Twitter/Other places on the internet
Date	01/29/2024
Solove Harm	Intrusion, Exposure, Distortion, Appropriation
Information	Identifying, Sexual, Physical Characteristics, Public Life
Threat Actors	Very Low
Individuals
Affected	Taylor Swift
High Risk Groups	Celebrities, Women
Tangible Harms	Cyberbullying and Online Harassmen, Unwanted Explicit Material (Cyberflashing), Psychological Stress

In the year 2023, new technology emerged that allows anyone to create what are called "deepfakes"; images or audios of people, mostly famous individuals, displaying them however the creator of the deepfake pleases. In this specific instance, users on the platform known as Twitter or X, created deepfakes of the popular singer Taylor Swift and posted them to the platform. They gained prominence quickly as these sexually explicit images portrayed Swift in ways that most of her fans would not think to view her. The photos gained over 27 million views, and spread to various other social media platforms.

Description

While individual platforms have come out and expressed that there is no place for this kind of content portraying celebrities in this manner without their permission. However there is currently no legislation or laws against this kind of technology. This kind of technology not only affects large celebrities, but mostly women in the online space. There was a scandal in early 2023 where a streamer on Twitch was caught watching deepfake porn of other streamers on the platform. This kind of technology harms women by portraying them in ways they may not have wanted to be portrayed without their consent. It is just a plain invasion of someone's privacy and consent, not allowing them to choose whether they are portrayed in sight lights, when they did not want to be.