Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton and world renowned environmental activist Greta Thunberg, are among the latest victims of Deepfake Porn.

The “Liz Truss – Anal Sex Farewell” video has already racked up 1400 views since being posted after 1pm yesterday.

Another Deepfake video also created by the same UK creator known as Gib-Fakes titled “Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, Cosplaying as Princess Peach”, has had almost 7000 since being insesitively created around the time of the passing of Queen Elizabeth in September 2022.

The creator of the videos Gib-Fakes accepts donations on the Deepfake pornographic platform. They also have a page on Fan-Topia where you can pay $25 to subscribe to access over 200 other Deepfake sexual image based abuse videos of other women.

These include many well known celebrities such as Emma Watson, Jennifer Connolly and Scarlet Johhansonn along with many more. It is quite incredible to think individuals are openly making money directly from the generation and sharing of imaged based sexual abuse videos of women.

Over the last few years this new type of pornographic content has emerged involving the use of Deepfake technology. This new medium affords the ability to digitally edit existing pornographic content by inserting the face of another person.

Sites hosting such content have seen a huge increase in traffic to pages devoted specifically to faked adult x-rated video and images.

A recent BBC docummentary dubbed ‘Deepfake Porn: Could You Be Next?', exposed the practice of generating fraudulent celebrity sex tapes.

This new form of image based sexual abuse has had a profound negative impact on countless victims who have had innocent images stolen. The images are then used without their knowledge or consent, to create Deepfake pornographic content.

Research shows that 96% of deepfake videos are porn. Almost all of which involve the imagry of non-consenting women.
The impact deepfake porn has on the women affected is stark.

However, interviews with the American owner of one of the biggest deepfake porn sites, and another British deepfake creator ‘Gorkem', reveal that without legislation that makes this practice illegal, they will continue to create these types of videos and images.

While the owner of the site is content to mistakenly believe he is above the law, he is fully accountable for the content he hosts, as are the creators.

There are many images and videos of global activist Greta Thunberg on the platform. Some of this content features images of her face from several years ago when she was in her early teens. Thereby making the videos and imagery created, hosted, liked and shared, illegal child sexual abuse and exploitation material. Something no doubt law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic would be interested in.

There are now dozens of Deepfake pornographic sites appearing online. All appear to be following the pornography giants Mindgeek playbook of stealing content to host and make substantial revenue through advertising.

Yet the difference here goes far beyond copyright infringement. These are platforms whose buisness model thrives on image based sexual abuse of thousands of unsuspecting women and children.

A BBC investigation found that anyone with a smartphone can create non-consensual pornographic content easily, by using the app FaceMagic, which is accessible to children as young as 12 on Google Play and Apple's App Store.

International legislation is urgently needed to tackle this very serious issue. The individuals hosting and creating the content need to be held accountable for the phenomenal harm they are inflicting.

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