British female politicians have become the victims of fake pornography, with some of their faces used in nude images created using artificial intelligence.
Dehenna Davison, a Conservative MP until the recent dissolution of parliament, is one of those featured on the site. She told Channel 4 News it was “really strange” that people would target women like her and she found it “quite violating”. She said that unless governments around the world put in place a proper regulatory framework for artificial intelligence there would be “major problems”.
Non-consensual deepfake technology, which takes a photograph of an individual and uses artificial intelligence to strip clothes or create a fake nude photo, has become a growing issue as part of the wider artificial intelligence boom. Earlier this year, an artificial intelligence app that invites users to “undress anyone using AI”, which channelled its transactions through a company registered in London, and has caused chaos in some schools..