The Download: deepfake porn's stolen bodies and AI sharing private numbers
The Download: deepfake porn's stolen bodies and AI sharing private numbers Plus: the US has approved Nvidia chip sales to 10 Chinese firms. When Jennifer got a research job in 2023, she ran her new professional headshot through a facial recognition program. She wanted to see whether it would pull up the porn videos she'd made more than a decade earlier. It did, but it also surfaced something she'd never seen before: one of her old videos, now featuring someone else's face on her body. Conversations about sexualized deepfakes usually focus on the people whose faces are inserted into explicit content without consent. But another group often gets ignored: the people whose bodies those faces are attached to.
May-14-2026, 12:10:00 GMT
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