Fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass and humiliate women: 'Everybody is a potential target'

The video showed the woman in a pink off-the-shoulder top, sitting on a bed, smiling a convincing smile. But it had been seamlessly grafted, without her knowledge or consent, onto someone else's body: a young pornography actress, just beginning to disrobe for the start of a graphic sex scene. A crowd of unknown users had been passing it around online. She felt nauseous and mortified: What if her co-workers saw it? Would it change how they thought of her? Would they believe it was a fake?