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As if to underscore video makers’ compulsion to punish women who speak out, one of the videos to which Google alerted me depicts me with Hillary Clinton and Greta Thunberg. Because of their global celebrity, deepfakes of the former presidential candidate and the climate-change activist are far more numerous and more graphic than those of me. Users can also easily find deepfake-porn videos of the singer Taylor Swift, the actress Emma Watson, and the former Fox News host Megyn Kelly; Democratic officials such as Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; the Republicans Nikki Haley and Elise Stefanik; and countless other prominent women. By simply existing as women in public life, we have all become targets, stripped of our accomplishments, our intellect, and our activism and reduced to sex objects for the pleasure of of anonymous eyes.

But at least this was still quite complex software, and very few had the resources and ability to create convincing deepfakes. That is, until in 2017 when the Reddit community began creating deepfakes for themselves and a faked pornographic video of Wonder Woman actor Gal Gadot started doing the rounds online. Quickly, numerous pornographic deepfake videos with Gadot’s face stitched onto actors appeared on Reddit, along with other stars such as Emma Watson and Kim Kardashian. Because there are so many images and videos of celebrities available, there is a lot of material for the A.I. to learn from, so it can create extremely convincing celebrity deepfakes very swiftly. In 2018, Reddit banned sexually explicit deepfakes, saying they constituted ‘involuntary pornography.’ Shortly afterwards, Twitter did the same. But the phenomenon had already taken flight, and deepfake porn was still readily available online, and the means with which to create it were become much more accessible.

While celebrities such as singer Taylor Swift and actress Emma Watson have been victims of deepfake porn, women not in the public eye are also targeted.

Motherboard reports that certain datasets, comprised of thousands of photos of a celebrity’s face, for celebrities such as Emma Watson or Elle Fanning either contained or may have contained photos of them when they were under 18. This has prompted deepfake makers to either delete entire datasets, or caution others using the datasets that some of the photos in the sets could be of a child. This doesn’t necessarily mean the celebrities appear in porn as a child, but that the composite photos of their faces could include images from when they were underage.

Fakes depicting actress Emma Watson are among the most popular on deepfake communities, alongside those involving Natalie Portman.