Sorry about fake porn

Jennifer, who lives in North Carolina, says she regularly receives inappropriate messages from strangers online. These men used deep fake technology to watch porn while their faces were glued to other women. This video was tagged with Jennifer’s real name, home address and Instagram account and has been causing trouble for months because he can’t help it.

“Men are equal when it comes to texting. At first they say I’m cute, but then they start insulting me and tell me to send them a nude photo or video. If I say no, they don’t let go. Leave it. Ask me to send dirty photos to platforms like OnlyFans or Snapchat,” Jennifer said.

Not only on Instagram but Jennifer has found many topics of discussion about her videos online. “I feel hopeless, there’s nothing I can do to stop the constant harassment,” she said.

Jennifer says she reported the case to the FBI but admits it’s difficult to solve. “How do you meet anonymous people online when you have no idea,” she wondered. “All I can do is laugh and try to live my life.”

Jennifer is one of the many victims of deep forgery, a technology that analyzes human gestures, facial expressions, and voices, and then recreates and edits them to create a realistic image or video. When it was first revealed in 2017, deepfake immediately attracted attention with pornographic images involving famous victims such as actresses Gal Gadot, Emma Watson, Scarlett Johansson or Daisy Ridley.

A few seemingly harmless apps whose primary function is to change faces, but many advanced phishing tools thrive and are used for malicious purposes that make it difficult for viewers to tell the real from the fake.

Based on 2018 According to Sensity AI, an in-depth fake research company founded in 2015, more than 90% of current fake content is pornographic images and videos, mostly targeting women. Meanwhile, the FBI has registered more than 18,000 fake victims through 2021, which will cost them about $14 million. About half of the victims are between 20 and 39 years old.

With the rapid development of the digital field, managing fake content is becoming more and more complicated. For example, an AI bot was launched on Telegram in 2019, creating thousands of fake messages about women and children, which were sent directly to dozens of accounts. follow up WiredThe fake content generated by bots has been shared more than 100,000 times on Telegram channels, but the app lacks much protection.

Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook all have policies to “prevent misinformation,” but most fake content is out of control. Meanwhile, the law does not provide specific sanctions for fake pornography.

As technology becomes increasingly abusive, anti-diversity laws are essential, experts say. “Deepfake is a Pandora’s box. Response to the law is very slow and frustrating,” said Rebecca Delfino, a professor at Loyola Law School. In Greek mythology, Pandora is a box containing evil human souls.

Deep technology is not only a concern in life when used for political purposes. In March 2018, a video of former US President Barack Obama handing over to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, later found to be fake, went viral and took more than 10 hours to be identified.

“Finding deep fakes is a cat-and-mouse game like virus hunting. Wael Abd Almaghed, founder of the Visual Intelligence and Multimedia Analysis Laboratory at the University of Southern California, said it was a losing race,” he comments.

Victims like Jennifer are advised that “the best way to fight back is to back down,” which means doing nothing. “The police told me not to associate with bullies,” she said.

Jennifer often prays early in the morning. But at night she still installed the new security system in the house and carefully checked things around her. “I gave up on love,” she said. “If not quite, I still feel good.”

Bao Lam (Consequences Morning Brew)