British female politicians targeted by fake pornography (www.theguardian.com)

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British female politicians have become the victims of fake pornography, with some of their faces used in nude images created using artificial intelligence.

Political candidates targeted on one prominent fake pornography website include: the Labour deputy leader, Angela Rayner; the education secretary, Gillian Keegan; the Commons leader, Penny Mordaunt; the former home secretary, Priti Patel; and the Labour backbencher Stella Creasy, according to Channel 4 News.

Many of the images have been online for several years and attracted hundreds of thousands of views.

While some are crude Photoshops featuring the politician’s head imposed on to another person’s naked body, other images appear to be more complicated deepfakes that have been created using AI technology. Some of the politicians targeted have now contacted police.

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[-] RedStrawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 months ago

Its so sad hearing about this happening often :( I just wonder why? if people are actually looking for this stuff or if its entirely offensive, defamatory/political etc..? It can not be anything more than hurting the victims right

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 12 points 4 months ago

The article touches on this to some degree:

Creasy told the broadcaster that she felt “sick” to learn about the images and that “none of this is about sexual pleasure, it’s all about power and control”.

I presume the psychology behind this activity is varied - for example, I could imagine some people being so insecure that they feel the need to degrade powerful women. However, there may be others who get off on that sort of thing.

[-] OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago

How pathetically sad do you have to be to spend time making this stuff? What absolute fucking losers.

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