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Nicola Henry, Professor & Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University

What to do if you, or someone you know, is targeted with deepfake porn or AI nudes

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This week, about 50 female students from Victoria’s Bacchus Marsh Grammar School had fake, sexually explicit images of them shared without their consent on Instagram and Snapchat. Images of their faces, purportedly obtained from social media, were stitched onto pornographic images using artificial intelligence (AI).

Deepfake porn, or what our team calls “AI-generated image-based sexual abuse”, involves the use of AI to create a nude and/or sexual image of a person doing or saying things they haven’t said or done.

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