"In the years since graduation, he'd also become her support system, the friend she reached for each time she learned that her images and personal details had been posted online without her consent. Jodie's pictures, along with her real name and correct bio, were used on many platforms for fake dating profiles, then adverts for sex work, then posted on to Reddit and other online forums with invitations to deepfake them into pornography. The results ended up on porn sites."
"All this continued for almost two years, until Jodie finally worked out who was doing it her best friend identified more of his victims, compiled 60 pages of evidence, and presented it to police. She had to try two police stations, having been told at the first that no crime had been committed."
"Ultimately he admitted to 15 charges of sending messages that were grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing nature and received a 20-week prison sentence, suspended for two years. At that time, there were no laws against deepfake intimate image abuse, although experts had been raising the alarm since 2016."
Jodie experienced almost two years of targeted deepfake image-based abuse using her real name, photos and bio to create fake dating profiles, sex-work adverts and pornographic deepfakes. Her best friend identified other victims, compiled 60 pages of evidence and presented it to police after one station initially said no crime had occurred. The perpetrator admitted to 15 charges and received a 20-week suspended prison sentence. No specific laws against deepfake intimate-image abuse existed at the time. The abuse caused severe mental-health impacts and later prompted Jodie to campaign publicly for legal change.
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