Adult content creators are having their bodies used in deepfake pornography without their consent, and AI is making the problem significantly worse. 

MIT Technology Review spoke to ISD Senior Research & Policy Manager Anne Craanen about the psychological and legal dimensions of this issue. Anne explained the concept of “embodied harms,” the real physiological and psychological damage that deepfake content causes even when it exists only in the virtual realm, including body dysmorphia and self-censorship among those targeted. 

Anne highlighted that people whose faces appear in nonconsensual intimate imagery often feel silenced and may step back from public-facing life as a result.

The full article is available on the MIT Technology Review.