"He sent over a link, which took her to a site called Mr DeepFakes. There, she found fake images of herself, naked, squatting, chained, performing sex acts with various animals. They were tagged Patrizia Schlosser sluty FUNK whore (sic). They were very graphic, very humiliating, says Schlosser, a German journalist for Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and Funk. They were also very badly done, which made it easier to distance myself, and tell myself they were obviously fake."
"I tried to push it to the back of my mind, which was really a strategy of not dealing with it, she says. But it's strange how the brain works. You know it's fake but still you see it. It's not you but also it is you. There you are with a dog and a chain. You feel violated but confused. At some point, I decided: No. I'm angry. I don't want those images out there.'"
"Schlosser's subsequent documentary for NDR's STRG_F programme did succeed in getting the images removed. She also tracked down the young man who had created and posted them even visiting his home and speaking to his mother. (The perpetrator himself wouldn't come out of his bedroom.) However, Schlosser was unable to identify Mr DeepFakes or whoever was behind the site, despite enlisting the help of Bellingcat, the online investigative journalism collective."
Patrizia Schlosser discovered explicit deepfake images of herself on a site called Mr DeepFakes, showing her in degrading sexual scenarios with animals and labeled with humiliating tags. She initially dismissed the images as badly made fakes but felt violated and angry. Schlosser produced a documentary that achieved removal of the images and tracked down the young man who created and posted them, visiting his home and speaking with his mother. The creator refused to come out, and investigators, including Bellingcat, could not identify the operators of Mr DeepFakes. The site appeared large, hosting many celebrity deepfake videos.
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