Actress Angel Aquino and content creator Queen Hera's daughter became victims of deepfake pornography where AI technology was used to superimpose their faces onto pornographic content without their consent.
The incident involves the creation of deepfake pornographic videos using AI technology to superimpose the faces of real people onto explicit content without their consent. Actress Angel Aquino discovered through a friend that there was a deepfake video using her face in pornographic material. Similarly, content creator Queen Hera found that her daughter had become a victim when someone sent her a direct message on Instagram informing her that her daughter had been seen on the dark web, where an edited image showed her daughter's face superimposed onto explicit content. Aquino testified before the Senate committee on women that there are other personalities in the limelight who have also become victims but may not yet know about it. The incident was discovered through social media notifications and friend reports. The harm included psychological distress, feelings of violation, disgust, anger, and dehumanization for the victims. The report does not specify the exact AI system, developer, or technical details of how the deepfakes were created, but indicates this is part of a broader pattern of AI-enabled non-consensual pornographic content creation affecting multiple victims.
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