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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

‘I felt disgusted’: MEP speaks out over nude deepfakes and urges EU action

Lena Schilling, a young woman standing by a microphone
Lena Schilling is one of 50 MEPs, 46 of them women, who have been targeted by sexualised deepfakes. Photograph: APA-Images/Alamy

An Austrian MEP has spoken out about her experience of being “stripped naked” online without her consent and has urged the EU to take action, as a report found that one in six female MEPs had been targeted by sexualised AI-generated content.

Lena Schilling of the Green party said she had learned last month about nude deepfakes of herself circulating online. When she opened the links, she found herself staring at images from one of her first ever press conferences – but the images had been digitally altered to remove her clothing.

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