Deepfake Porn Reveals a 'Pervert's Dilemma'

April 10 was a very bad day in the life of celebrity gamer and YouTuber Atrioc (Brandon Ewing). Ewing was broadcasting one of his usual Twitch livestreams when his browser window was accidentally exposed to his audience. During those few moments, viewers were suddenly face-to-face with what appeared to be deepfake porn videos featuring female YouTubers and gamers QTCinderella and Pokimane--colleagues and, to my understanding, Ewing's friends. Moments later, a quick-witted viewer uploaded a screenshot of the scene to Reddit, and thus the scandal was a fact. Deepfakes refer broadly to media doctored by AI, commonly to superimpose a person's face onto that of, say, an actor in a movie or video clip.