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Volume of Sexual Deepfakes Soaring by 550 Percent Every Year: eSafety Commissioner

‘Pornographic videos make up 98 percent of the deepfake material currently online,’ said eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant.
Volume of Sexual Deepfakes Soaring by 550 Percent Every Year: eSafety Commissioner
An image of the TikTok phone app in front of a laptop featuring the front page to Australia's eSafety commissioner website, taken in Perth, Western Australia on Jan. 20, 2024. Wade Zhong/The Epoch Times
Alfred Bui
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eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has revealed that sexual deepfakes have exploded by over five times every year on average since 2019.

Deepfakes are fake videos and pictures of a person in which their face or body has been digitally modified by software or AI (artificial intelligence) to make the person appear as somebody else.

Alfred Bui
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Alfred Bui is an Australian reporter based in Melbourne and focuses on local and business news. He is a former small business owner and has two master’s degrees in business and business law. Contact him at [email protected].