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AAP
Politics
Dominic Giannini

Safeguards needed to police fake porn generation apps

Complaints about intimate photos and videos being shared without consent are on the rise. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Easily accessible image-generation phone applications and websites have little to no safeguards for people using them to create fake porn without the consent of people in photos or age verification of the user.

Such platforms allow users to upload photos of any person and either impose their faces on pornographic images and videos or generate raunchy alterations from a supplied picture.

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