AI abuse
Imagine seeing yourself in an explicit video you never actually filmed. Activist and UN Women UK ambassador Gina Martin takes on the dystopian spread of deepfakes
“Another way to abuse women unlocked.” That’s how my friend put it back in 2018, when we first heard the word ‘deepfake’ at an event for survivors of abuse. The comprehending that new and dangerous tools of misogyny were being created quicker than ever was dawning on me. The realisation that you could digitally manipulate and replace one person’s likeness convincingly with that of another had me scrunching my face like I’d smelt something putrid. Today, in a society that’s
