A viral video shows Jewish celebrities wearing anti-Kanye T-shirts. However, the video was created using AI without permission from the celebrities.

Scarlett Johansson has spoken out about the deepfake video in a statement to PEOPLE.

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— What’s Trending (@WhatsTrending) February 12, 2025

Related: Yids Flip Lids Over Kanye’s Swastika T-Shirt

She can destroy a T-Rex like it’s some crying man whose life she ruined, but can she bring down the monster of antisemitism and the robots that promote it?

I actually support the US having ridiculous restrictions on AI development. China is already the leader in the field by a lot; just let Jews cripple their empire even further by limiting technological development for the purpose of social engineering.

CNN:

Scarlett Johansson is condemning antisemitism and calling for legislation to protect the public from artificial intelligence after a deepfake video of her and other celebrities, created with the technology, widely circulated on social media this week.

The AI video showed an image of Johansson in a T-shirt emblazoned with a hand and middle finger extended, a Jewish star and Kanye West’s name. Though fake, the video implied she and others were responding to West’s most recent antisemitic remarks and a swastika shirt he was selling on his Yeezy website, before it was pulled down by Shopify.

“It has been brought to my attention by family members and friends, that an AI-generated video featuring my likeness, in response to an antisemitic view, has been circulating online and gaining traction,” Johansson said in a statement obtained by CNN. “I am a Jewish woman who has no tolerance for antisemitism or hate speech of any kind. But I also firmly believe that the potential for hate speech multiplied by AI is a far greater threat than any one person who takes accountability for it. We must call out the misuse of AI, no matter its messaging, or we risk losing a hold on reality.”

Johansson’s statement continued, “I have unfortunately been a very public victim of AI, but the truth is that the threat of AI affects each and every one of us. There is a 1000 foot wave coming regarding AI that several progressive countries, not including the United States, have responded to in a responsible manner. It is terrifying that the US government is paralyzed when it comes to passing legislation that protects all of its citizens against the imminent dangers of AI.”

The fake video also included AI-generated imagery of Adam Levine, Mila Kunis, Lenny Kravitz, Mark Zuckerberg, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Stiller, Natalie Portman, David Schwimmer and others, set to “Hava Nagila,” a Jewish folk song that is typically played at celebratory cultural events.

Why does no one ever accuse these Jews of being robophobic?

They are definitely Kanyephobic, I can tell you that.

Why were they even against this meme? Isn’t this their view?

Are people not aware that AI exists?

Who falls for something like this?

RT:

Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto has declared his voice a “masterpiece,” after discovering that scammers used AI to impersonate him last week in a reported attempt to solicit funds from the country’s wealthiest business people.

Crosetto first alerted the public to the ongoing scam on Thursday in a post on X, warning that several prominent figures had been approached by imposters.

The scammers reportedly aimed to capitalize on a recent high-profile prisoner exchange with Iran, during which Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was released. The AI-generated “Crosetto” claimed urgent funding was needed to pay ransom for other reporters supposedly held in the Middle East, framing it as a matter of national security.

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Crosetto shared some jokes he was told about the situation, noting a suggestion from a friend that he could take solace in the fact that “fake copies of all masterpieces circulate.”

Yeah, that’s probably funnier in Italian, I would assume.

Original tweet here.

🇬🇧🇺🇦🇷🇺‼️🚨 BREAKING: DAILY MAIL PUBLISHES FAKE ABOUT NORTH KOREANS!

I added the original picture. pic.twitter.com/uNDloeVBde

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) December 4, 2024

ORIGINAL!

They are embarrassing pic.twitter.com/kqOilHxksz

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) December 4, 2024

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— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) December 4, 2024

These people will just publish fake shit to start wars.

It never ends with these people.

RT:

The Daily Mail has had to retract a story which falsely claimed to provide evidence that female North Korean soldiers are assisting Russia in the Ukraine conflict. The image upon which the report was based turned out to be doctored.

The story originally published by the British tabloid on Wednesday claimed that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had sent women “to fight as cannon fodder for [Russian President] Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.” The allegation was based on a picture of two women in uniforms, which the newspaper claimed was taken in Zheleznogorsk, a large city in the northwest of Kursk Region. The women were identified as sisters “Wei and Lin.”

The fake image is apparently based on a still from a video published last year by a Donetsk-linked channel, featuring twin sisters, who tell a camera operator that they are 25 years old and come from the city of Makeevka. Both claim to have been serving in armed forces since 2014, initially as members of the Donetsk militia.

In a correction, the Daily Mail said later in the day that the fabricated photograph had been provided to it by a “trusted freelance reporter” and apologized for “confusion caused” by its erroneous reporting.

They don’t even look Korean.

The Daily Mail is a goofy and pornographic tabloid, which has no credibility in the first place. But what will happen is, they will publish the fake news, then other sources will cite them, like “well, we can’t confirm it, but the Daily Mail has proved it.” Then when the hoax gets exposed, everyone who copied it just says “how were we supposed to know the Daily Mail was making that shit up?”

BREAKING: Pennsylvania school cancels classes after nude AI photos of over 50 girls, including the principal, were spread around campus. pic.twitter.com/GEx87xVuyj

— Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) November 18, 2024

Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school | arsTechnica

Parents test if school leaders can be prosecuted over failure to report AI nudes.

An AI-generated nude photo scandal has shut down a Pennsylvania private school. On Monday, classes were canceled after… pic.twitter.com/T58qFphkW2

— Owen Gregorian (@OwenGregorian) November 19, 2024

The Americans want to pass some kind of British-style law that makes it a crime of some sort to do deepfake nudes.

It’s not clear how this would be pushed under American law. It doesn’t really make any sense. In the UK, they can just make shit up, but in America, there remains a kind of framework for what is legal, and a cartoon picture cannot be illegal (unless of course the government outlawed obscenity again, which they’re not going to do because it’s a feminist country).

AP:

Images that depict the faces of girls with nude bodies have led to the departure of leaders from a private school in Pennsylvania, prompted a student protest and triggered a criminal investigation.

A juvenile suspect was “removed from” Lancaster Country Day School and his cellphone was seized by investigators in August, Susquehanna Regional Police Department Detective Laurel Bair said Tuesday.

It’s the latest example of how the use of artificial intelligence to create or manipulate images with sexual content has become a concern, including within school settings.

U.S. law enforcement has been cracking down on graphic depictions of computer-generated children as well as manipulated photos of real ones. The Justice Department says it’s pursuing those who exploit AI tools and states are racing to enact laws to address the problem.

How is the Justice Department cracking down? What is the law?

They are trying to make laws, but how can they make these laws? What is the core legal argument here? These are not real images, so it’s not “child porn” anymore than those Japanese loli cartoons.

What is the basic argument being made here?

A new Pennsylvania state law that takes effect late next month explicitly criminalizes making or disseminating AI-generated child sexual abuse material.

Abuse!

Who is being abused???

It’s a cartoon!

And police in South Korea are on a seven-month push to combat explicit deepfake content, with tougher penalties, expanded use of undercover officers and increased regulation of social media. Concerns in South Korea deepened after unconfirmed lists of schools with victims spread earlier this year.

Yes. Korea is implementing a total police state with secret police everywhere to stop teenage girls from being mad about cartoons created by horny teenage boys.

As part of the police investigation into what the Lancaster Country Day School describes as “disturbing AI generated photographs,” a search warrant was used this summer to obtain an iPhone 11 linked to a 15-year-old, according to court records. The records do not identify the teen.

A woman told police that her daughter said a fellow student had been “taking photographs of students and using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to portray the female juvenile students as being nude,” according to a probable cause affidavit used to apply for the search warrant.

Wouldn’t it be easier to teach girls not to be upset by these images? Why are they even upset? This should be an opportunity for women. In the future, if they get caught doing real porn, they can just say it’s AI. It creates a free pass for women to do porn.

WATCH: Parents sued the Lancaster Country Day School in Pennsylvania last week over its handling of AI-generated explicit images of students. The lawsuit allegedly follows nude images involving dozens of students being created through AI. pic.twitter.com/RkSDsuRZHK

— Crisis in the Classroom (@CITClassroom) November 18, 2024

Basically, this is the same thing as when the Jews say “we need to crack down on child porn and hate speech.” Everyone seems to understand what they’re doing there: they’re claiming that criticism of the Jews needs to be equated to child porn.

In making this huge fiasco over AI porn – which really does not matter at all – they are getting an “in” to undermine the public’s ability to freely use AI.

Governments have figured out that the open source AI is going to be at least as good as the closed source censored garbage, so they want to get an ability to restrict its use, and the best way to do that is to create laws to “protect the children.”

People call me a pervert for saying it’s not a big deal if people are doing deepfake porn of underage girls. I don’t really know how to respond to that other than: “Shut the fuck up you whining, emotional little baby. You fucking faggot moralfag, shut up. You are so gay, your stupid child emotions make me sick, you coward.”

I’m not defending “child porn.” Deepfakes are not child porn anymore than someone getting killed in a movie is “murder.” It’s not real porn. The entire opposition to child porn was that the girls were being abused, and no one is being abused if someone makes a cartoon of them. Teenagers have been drawing nude pictures of their classmates since the invention of pencils, and they’ve been using photoshop for decades.

I don’t support any porn. I have consistently lobbied for a reintroduction of obscenity laws in America and elsewhere. I think it should all be banned. So don’t tell me I’m defending it. I’m just telling you, this is not about protecting the emotions of teenage girls. If you believe that, you are literally a retarded baby. This is about restricting the use of AI, because the last thing the government wants is for the peasantry to have full access to the AI tools that the government and corporations are planning to use against us.

Seriously, bro. Get it together. Control your faggot womanly emotions. It’s fucking disgusting, watching you whine.

I have a lot of big ideas about the reality collapse. I haven’t written it all in one place, but I’ve been writing bits about it for yearts now. Many news stories are beginning to pop up showing what I’ve been saying is indeed happening.

Basically, the deal is, humans allowed technology to become reality. The first thing was the telephone – talking to someone far away without being able to see them. Then TVs showed global events which you did not personally witness. Then the internet.

Now, all of those technologies that we’ve allowed to serve as stand-ins for physical reality are being increasingly manipulated, to the point where we cannot tell what is real anymore. This is going to continue to get worse and worse.

New York Post:

A California senior citizen was swindled out of $25,000 by scammers using an AI voice mimicking his son to make him believe his loved one was involved in a “horrible accident” and needed money to be bailed out of jail.

The man, identified only as Anthony, said he received a call from who he believed to be his son, saying he had struck a pregnant woman while driving, and she was “rushed to the ICU,” according to ABC 7.

“It was his voice. It was absolutely his voice,” he told the outlet. “There was no doubt about it.”

Los Angeles Police Department detective Chelsea Saeger told ABC 7 that scammers have become “more clever and sophisticated” over recent years.

“They are using social media and technology to craft these very believable and convincing stories, and people really do believe they’re talking to a grandchild or a government official,” Saeger said.

While phone scams are not new, technological advances — specifically in artificial intelligence and number blockers — have opened a new playing field for fraudsters who pray on unsuspecting victims to steal their hard-earned money.

“They call, and when you answer, and it’s a scammer, there’s silence,” Saeger explained.

“They want you to say ‘hello’ or ‘is anybody there?’ All they need is three seconds of your voice to input it into AI and to clone it.”

The detective also said scammers will go through “video posts” on social media as a way for them to capture voices and clone them to use to defraud others.

These scams are mostly done by Indians, and it is completely insane that the US government will not sanction them for this – even whilst they are willing to sanction Africans for not having enough gay sex with underage boys.

You really, really should not trust audio clips anymore

Even a couple months ago, it used to take a commercial service to clone a voice. No more. Here is me creating a voice clone of myself using just a 10 second reference clip on my home computer

This is all real time, no cuts pic.twitter.com/0OlBcMcYbm

— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) October 14, 2024

But this is of course bigger than Indian scams. This is rapidly becoming Black Mirror. No one is going to have any idea what is real anymore.

This collapse of reality has long been predicted in science fiction. Philip K. Dick, who was my favorite fiction author when I was a teenager, is perhaps most infamous for this, but I’ve recently been going back through Frank Herbert’s non-Dune books, and Destination: Void and the trilogy that follows it, the Pandora Sequence, deals with these themes in a slightly more organized manner. Both of these writers were German-Irish, but Dick was on too many drugs and totally paranoid.

Though Philip K. Dick was satirical, many of the stories were near-future, and thus sort of almost resembling what is happening now. Herbert did primarily far-future material, where the themes are more allegorical than literal. But a technologically-driven collapse of man’s ability to get a grip on reality is a key theme in their stories as well as many other science fiction stories.

The 2009 film Pandorum doesn’t credit Herbert, but is basically a rip-off of his stories. It’s turned into a horror film, so much of the analogy is lost. It’s still a pretty good movie though.

Cryptography can be used to ensure that the person you’re talking to on the phone is really that person – unless someone gets ahold of their device and uses it to call you. That is much less of a problem than the fact that you cannot believe anything you see in a video is actually real.

More seriously, AI could be used to target you personally and manipulate your internet use in order to give you various false beliefs about the nature of reality. The internet, which we all rely on so much, could be turned into a Skinner Box.

Facebook was infamously caught using algorithms to manipulate people’s emotions long before the modern LLM type of AI was created.

Manipulating your emotions is part of the process, but they could now very easily use Facebook and Google, as well as the AI programs people are using directly now, to manipulate your entire perception of reality.

I have often described my experience with the “Alt Right” as being like the Truman Show, as I eventually realized that all of the major figures in it were working with the feds. It was truly surreal and not something that anyone who hasn’t been in such a situation could ever understand.

But you might understand it soon.

Everyone could end up in that kind of situation, where they are the center of a vast manipulation of their reality, and they have no ability to distinguish what is real.

Probably, it’s time to start meeting with the people you know and care about in real life, and distancing yourself from technology.

🎥 Today we’re premiering Meta Movie Gen: the most advanced media foundation models to-date.

Developed by AI research teams at Meta, Movie Gen delivers state-of-the-art results across a range of capabilities. We’re excited for the potential of this line of research to usher in… pic.twitter.com/NDOnyKOOyq

— AI at Meta (@AIatMeta) October 4, 2024

More examples of what Meta Movie Gen can do across video generation, precise video editing, personalized video generation and audio generation. pic.twitter.com/Dz65QGNgaJ

— AI at Meta (@AIatMeta) October 4, 2024

So, I know this is uncomfortable, but the thing is… we are already at the point where we can’t actually know if a video is real, and therefore the default position should be that anything you see on the internet is fake unless you have reason to believe otherwise.

This is a video that was going around a couple weeks ago:

The Hustle 🔫🔥

Somebody said uncensored? Thank you @grok for letting us all have some fun 🙌💯

Note: We don’t hold any political stance, just having some fun 😊 @elonmusk#GROK #GROK2 #grokimages #Grok2images pic.twitter.com/w5y428fVJ9

— The Dor Brothers (@thedorbrothers) August 21, 2024

That was apparently made with open source software. Although I don’t think closed source AI is going to remain superior to open source AI, it is right now, so these companies (and therefore the government) already have the ability to do a lot better than that video. And in a year’s time, the open source stuff will catch up and be indistinguishable from reality.

People should exploit this situation and create massive amounts of disinformation in order to promote the political agenda. The other side is definitely going to be doing that.

The Guardian:

Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, announced on Friday it had built a new artificial intelligence model called Movie Gen that can create realistic-seeming video and audio clips in response to user prompts, claiming it can rival tools from leading media generation startups like OpenAI and ElevenLabs.

Samples of Movie Gen’s creations provided by Meta showed videos of animals swimming and surfing, as well as clips using people’s real photos to depict them performing actions like painting on a canvas.

Movie Gen also can generate background music and sound effects synced to the content of the videos, Meta said in a blogpost. Users can also edit existing videos with the model.

That’s what’s going to be easiest at first – replacing faces with other faces and changing real video.

Horny Korean teenage boys are leading the way here, apparently.

In one such video, Meta had the tool insert pompoms into the hands of a man running by himself in the desert, while in another it changed a parking lot on which a man was skateboarding from dry ground into one covered by a splashing puddle.

Videos created by Movie Gen can be up to 16 seconds long, while audio can be up to 45 seconds long, Meta said. It shared data showing blind tests indicating that the model performs favorably compared with offerings from startups including Runway, OpenAI, ElevenLabs and Kling.

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Meta spokespeople said the company was unlikely to release Movie Gen for open use by developers, as it has with its Llama series of large-language models, saying it considers the risks individually for each model. They declined to comment on Meta’s assessment for Movie Gen specifically.

They probably will release it, because they want people working with their models and that’s the way to do it, but it doesn’t matter if they do or don’t, the ship is out of the bottle. Closed source, scam that it is, cannot possibly contain AI development. AI is too important for that nonsense.

Elvis Dunderhoff contributed to this article. 

“Deep fake porn” being a crime when porn itself is legal is confusing beyond what is even reasonable.

What is the crime? Specifically? What does this even mean?

Women are entitled whores and they deserve a lot worse.

AP:

Three years after the 30-year-old South Korean woman received a barrage of online fake images that depicted her nude, she is still being treated for trauma. She struggles to talk with men. Using a mobile phone brings back the nightmare.

“It completely trampled me, even though it wasn’t a direct physical attack on my body,” she said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. She didn’t want her name revealed because of privacy concerns.

Many other South Korean women recently have come forward to share similar stories as South Korea grapples with a deluge of non-consensual, explicit deepfake videos and images that have become much more accessible and easier to create.

It was not until last week that parliament revised a law to make watching or possessing deepfake porn content illegal.

Most suspected perpetrators in South Korea are teenage boys. Observers say the boys target female friends, relatives and acquaintances — also mostly minors — as a prank, out of curiosity or misogyny. The attacks raise serious questions about school programs but also threaten to worsen an already troubled divide between men and women.

Deepfake porn in South Korea gained attention after unconfirmed lists of schools that had victims spread online in August. Many girls and women have hastily removed photos and videos from their Instagram, Facebook and other social media accounts. Thousands of young women have staged protests demanding stronger steps against deepfake porn. Politicians, academics and activists have held forums.

“Teenage (girls) must be feeling uneasy about whether their male classmates are okay. Their mutual trust has been completely shattered,” said Shin Kyung-ah, a sociology professor at South Korea’s Hallym University.

The school lists have not been formally verified, but officials including President Yoon Suk Yeol have confirmed a surge of explicit deepfake content on social media. Police have launched a seven-month crackdown.

Recent attention to the problem has coincided with France’s arrest in August of Pavel Durov, the founder of the messaging app Telegram, over allegations that his platform was used for illicit activities including the distribution of child sexual abuse. South Korea’s telecommunications and broadcast watchdog said Monday that Telegram has pledged to enforce a zero-tolerance policy on illegal deepfake content.

Police say they’ve detained 387 people over alleged deepfake crimes this year, more than 80% of them teenagers. Separately, the Education Ministry says about 800 students have informed authorities about intimate deepfake content involving them this year.

Experts say the true scale of deepfake porn in the country is far bigger.

“I feel scared of living as a woman in South Korea,” said Kim Haeun, a 17-year-old high school student who recently removed all her photos on Instagram. She said she feels awkward when talking with male friends and tries to distance herself from boys she doesn’t know well.

“Most sex crimes target women. And when they happen, I think we are often helpless,” she said.

You could make porn illegal. Then you could prosecute boys for any porn. But feminists would never do that, because porn represses male sexuality.

So right now, with these rules against “deepfake porn,” you’re just outlawing the sexuality of teen boys. It’s a targeted attack.

“South Korea” is a stupid fake country, a pompous and illegal rebellion against the legitimate government of Korea. It’s now imploding in on itself, as was inevitable from the start. They are not producing children at all, because of their obsession with feminism and hatred of male sexuality, and they are going to go extinct in a generation. The established government of Korea will not have to fight a war to defeat the rebellion, and will simply walk into a Seoul filled with robotic nursing homes.

South Korea is facing its latest crisis of digital sex crimes.

Social media users took photos and videos of women and girls, manipulated them into sexual deepfakes, and posted them online for hundreds of thousands of people to watch. https://t.co/htMGWBuHRV pic.twitter.com/UAZB6HgDIw

— Human Rights Watch (@hrw) September 15, 2024

Elvis Dunderhoff contributed to this article. 

This is amazing 😂
pic.twitter.com/KpnBKGUUwn

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 26, 2024

Bitch, you got brat memes, you got it locked.

Just chill.

Stop blaming other people for your problems like a woman.

I’m sure those brat memes are going to deliver big time.

The Guardian:

Kamala Harris’s election campaign has accused Elon Musk of spreading “manipulated lies” after the Tesla chief executive posted a doctored video featuring the vice-president on his X account.

Musk reposted a manipulated Harris campaign video on Friday evening in which a fake Harris voiceover says “I was selected because I am the ultimate diversity hire” and that anyone who criticises her is “both sexist and racist”.

The video has been viewed 128m times on Musk’s account after the world’s richest man posted it with the words “this is amazing” followed by a laughing emoji. Musk owns X, which he rebranded from Twitter last year.

Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat senator, accused Musk of violating the platform’s guidelines. According to X’s synthetic and manipulated media policy, users are barred from sharing “synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm” although allowances are made for satire provided it does not “cause significant confusion about the authenticity of the media”.

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The video was posted originally by the @MrReaganUSA account, which is linked to the conservative YouTuber podcaster Chris Kohls, on X and is labelled a parody.

There’s free speech.

I mean there’s not. Elon won’t even let you jack off.

But in theory there is, and if people want to make fun of you, you just need more brat memes, you know?

That’s working.

It’s great.

I think these memes suck and i hate you, Kamala.

But people like it, apparently.

People put the t-shirts and so on.

Just shut up.

Shut up.

Manipulating a voice in an “ad” like this one should be illegal.

I’ll be signing a bill in a matter of weeks to make sure it is. pic.twitter.com/NuqOETkwTI

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 29, 2024

What is the crime?

These women post pictures of themselves online.

Are they claiming copyright violation?

Because if every picture of every person online was copyrighted, that would be really complicated.

The Guardian:

British female politicians have become the victims of fake pornography, with some of their faces used in nude images created using artificial intelligence.

Political candidates targeted on one prominent fake pornography website include: the Labour deputy leader, Angela Rayner; the education secretary, Gillian Keegan; the Commons leader, Penny Mordaunt; the former home secretary, Priti Patel; and the Labour backbencher Stella Creasy, according to Channel 4 News.

Many of the images have been online for several years and attracted hundreds of thousands of views.

While some are crude Photoshops featuring the politician’s head imposed on to another person’s naked body, other images appear to be more complicated deepfakes that have been created using AI technology. Some of the politicians targeted have now contacted police.

Dehenna Davison, a Conservative MP until the recent dissolution of parliament, is one of those featured on the site. She told Channel 4 News it was “really strange” that people would target women like her and she found it “quite violating”.

She said that unless governments around the world put in place a proper regulatory framework for AI, there would be “major problems”.

Creasy told the broadcaster that she felt “sick” to learn about the images and that “none of this is about sexual pleasure, it’s all about power and control”.

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Since the Online Safety Act was introduced in January, sharing such imagery without consent has been illegal in the UK. Yet sites hosting this material are easily accessible through mainstream search engines such as Google.

The British are probably going to pass total nonsense laws on this issue. I don’t really think America can, but they might try.

Australia already apparently has laws about it. At least, they arrest people over it.

Calling these women “victims” is just so bizarre.

Here’s an idea: if they don’t want fake porn, why not ban porn completely?

But they won’t do that. Women would never go for it.

Okay, so.

I’m for banning porn.

But porn is not banned.

Therefore, this is not a ban on porn. It is a ban on AI. And it doesn’t make any sense.

CNN:

Australian authorities are investigating the distribution of deepfake pornographic images of around 50 schoolgirls, allegedly created by a teenager using artificial intelligence.

The discovery comes as the federal government pushes for new laws to impose prison sentences on offenders who create and share images made by AI tools to humiliate and denigrate victims.

Fuck you.

Other countries, including the United States, are attempting to address an alarming rise in deepfake porn, where nude deepfakes of schoolgirls have been created and shared  – in some instances, allegedly by schoolboys.

Victoria Police confirmed they had arrested and released a teenager “in relation to explicit images being circulated online” pending further inquiries.

The images were reportedly created using photos posted to social media of 50 female students of Bacchus Marsh Grammar, a co-educational school on the outskirts of Melbourne in Victoria.

The school’s principal Andrew Neal told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that the victims were girls in grades 9 to 12, indicating a possible age range of between 14 and 18.

The boy’s age and identity are unknown, but Neal told the ABC that “logic would suggest that the [offender] is someone at the school.”

This month, the Australian government introduced legislation to criminalize the distribution of deepfake pornography nationwide.

Under the proposed law, offenders could face up to six years in prison for sharing non-consensual sexually explicit deepfake material.

If the offender has also created the deepfake content that is shared without permission, the sentence could rise to seven years in prison.

It’s part of the country’s response to gender-based violence that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called a “national crisis.”

Why would teenage boys not do this?

If porn is not illegal, how is this illegal?

What is the threat?

Who is the victim?

AI generated nude images of at least fifty female students at Bacchus Marsh Grammar have been circulated online. @Eliza_Rugg9 #9News pic.twitter.com/HA7wZooEfK

— 9News Melbourne (@9NewsMelb) June 11, 2024