Sexual Deepfakes in Australia Soared by 550 Percent Every Year: eSafety Commissioner

eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has revealed that sexual deepfakes have exploded by over five times every year on average since 2019. Deepfakes are fake videos and pictures of a person in which their face or body has been digitally modified by software or AI (artificial intelligence) to make the person appear as somebody else. “There’s some compelling and concerning data that explicit deepfakes have increased on the internet by as much as 550 percent year on year since 2019,” Ms. Inman Grant told an inquiry hearing on July 23. “Pornographic videos make up 98 percent of the deepfake material currently online, and 99 percent of that imagery is of women and girls.”...