2023-12-05 21:00:09
Taylor Klein was preparing to complete her engineering studies in Connecticut, United States, when she learned that fake pornographic videos of her were circulating on the Internet. “These videos had thousands of views. When I went to bed that night, I broke down. I felt very dirty. (…) I felt like someone was trying to punish me.”testifies the young woman in the documentary film Another Bodyreleased at the end of October in the United States.
Directors Sophie Compton and Reuben Hamlyn follow for more than an hour the fight and the quest for truth of this young American woman, whose life has been turned upside down by deepfakes pornographic. Also called “hypertrucages” in French, these photos and videos are modified or generated using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to depict women in erotic situations, without their consent.
As evidenced by the case of Taylor Klein, who testifies under a false identity, this growing sexist cyberviolence does not only target film actresses, singers or female politicians. Facts have recently been reported concerning adolescent girls of no notoriety, in a small town in southern Spain or in American high schools. Because with the leaps made by AI in recent years, these increasingly realistic montages have seen the profile of their victims evolve. And their numbers are exploding.
On a forum, a user extolls the merits of the “deepfake” tools he has developed.
Hundreds of tools, billions of views
The American analyst Genevieve Oh has been working for several years to quantify and map the online existence of these deepfakes pornographic. In his latest works, The world was able to consult, the statistician identified a total of 276,149 videos of this genre accessible on the traditional Web in the third quarter of 2023, listed for the most part on a handful of pornographic sites devoted to these images.
MrDeepFakes, dont The world recounted in 2022 the murky links with the synthetic media economy, still appears as the most popular portal with 1.3 billion cumulative views. Overall, activity on the ten most visited sites continues to increase: this year there are twice as many videos as last year and they reach more than 4.2 billion views, or four times the audience reached in 2019.
Of the deepfakes Sex stories are also hosted on mainstream porn platforms. Although most of them, including those of the MindGeek group (Pornhub, RedTube and YouPorn), have banned this content and have since sent a message of prevention about their potential illegality to those of their users who are looking for it, the French sites XVideos and XNXX continues to broadcast it, it was noted The world. When contacted, they did not respond to our requests.
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