According to current estimates, more than 90 percent of so-called deepfake videos are porn videos, says a new documentary.
From what would you like to see yourself unexpectedly appearing in a porn film? The question is topical, and what Deepfake porn-documentary (2022) want us to ask ourselves. The documentary will be shown today, Monday, on TV2 at 10 p.m. It can also be viewed at Yle Areena.
The documentary tells about the deepfake phenomenon, where in principle anyone can create a video of the person they want that looks real, but made with image manipulation by artificial intelligence. Fake videos of politicians have been the most exposed in the public eye.
However, it all started five years ago with porn. At that time, it was invented to replace the face of a porn movie actress with the face of a celebrity, and the end result started to spread virally.
According to current estimates, more than 90 percent of deepfake videos are porn videos, and those who unwittingly lent their faces to them the victims are almost exclusively women.
Mightily in the presented documentary speaks US politics Lauren Book. Several years ago, private photos were stolen from his phone, which were used to create a fake porn video. Soon the senator received a text message extorting money from him in exchange for pictures. The blackmailer threatened to release the video and destroy Book’s political career. Although Book is used to being in the public eye, she says that she has had physical symptoms and experienced frequent shame.
“I wanted to die,” he states in the documentary.
The messaging continued, and in the course of it, it became clear that the blackmailer was not only driven by money, but he got sadistic satisfaction from having Book under his control.
“I own you now,” the later arrested and convicted extortionist quipped in his messages.
Deepfake videos of the authors attitude towards women is also described in the documentary by Kate Isaacs shaking. With his #notyourporn campaign, Isaacs has been promoting the status of deepfake porn victims since 2019, and he spoke about the topic in an interview with the BBC. Shortly after that, opponents of the campaign targeted him.
Fake porn material was published about Isaacs, his address information was published and he was threatened with rape. Ironically, Isaacs’s face in the deepfake video was captured from the very BBC interview.
“I was afraid that they would carry out their threats and hurt me or my loved ones,” Isaacs states in the interview.
Of the victims in addition, the authors of deepfake porn videos and the owner of the company that allows the videos on their service also open up the topic in the documentary. The authors approach it like any other work: since the legislation does not prevent it, they do not see a problem in it. The entrepreneur who allows videos on his platform (and makes money from them), on the other hand, considers that the issue is a fantasy that does not require the consent of those appearing in the video.
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Any person who is normally attached to the modern world can end up on a deepfake video, including you.
Deepfake porn is clearly of interest to documentary makers right now, because a few weeks ago, another film on the topic premiered in the US. Another Body -documentary (2023) tells the story of a 23-year-old student who goes by the name Taylor Klein. In the documentary, Klein tells how he heard from his friends about the porn videos on Pornhub in which he allegedly appeared. He sets out to track down the creator of the fake video and learns about the relevant legislation.
The final conclusion is the same in both documents: despite the suffering of the victims, making a deepfake porn video is not a crime, at least if it was not done with the clear intent to harm.
“Technology develops faster than legislation,” the British document states.
And yes: In principle, any person who is normally attached to the modern world can end up on a deepfake video, including you. From dedicated websites, you can order a video of the person you want for a few tens, and there are already applications for your phone that allow you to make a short video in a few tens of seconds.
It only takes one unlucky social media update to usurp facial features. According to one of the interviewed deepfakes, selfie videos posted on social media are particularly valid material. In them, the photographer looks directly into the camera, which allows the artificial intelligence to accurately place the face thanks to eye tracking.
Major the future threat will be the spread of the phenomenon to schools. Defamation videos and revenge porn filmed secretly and published on social media have caused problems in schools in the past (see, for example, the Netflix documentary Audrey and Daisy), and deepfake videos give bullies new weapons.
You can be exposed to a deeply fake porn video, even if you have never even had sex.
Deepfake porn 3.4. On TV2 at 10 p.m. It can also be watched at Yle Areena.
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