Former model and presenter Jess Davies wants to see the governments in England and Wales make image-based sexual abuse illegal. In her new BBC Three documentary, Deepfake Porn: Could You Be Next?, Jess investigates how technology is being used to create hardcore porn of women without their consent. Deepfakes are synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else's likeness.
Over the course of the hour-long film, which also repeats on BBC One Wales on Monday, October 24, Jess sees first-hand the devastating effect that the exploitation of deepfake technology has on its victims. In England and Wales, there is currently no single offence that applies to non-consensual intimate images and the 29-year-old from Aberystwyth wants to see that changed.
Discussing her new film with WalesOnline, Jess said: “To know that the governments in England and Wales aren’t prioritising this is just crazy. You’d hope by the end of the documentary that there would be a bit of an uplift but unfortunately, there isn’t because there isn’t anything we can do about it at the moment. We hope that raising some awareness of these issues will put a bit of pressure on the government to make these acts illegal.”
