Penny Mordaunt expressed shock at becoming a victim of deepfake pornography during her time as an MP. She revealed her face was used in AI-generated deepfake porn and noted that several other parliamentarians also faced this issue. Mordaunt emphasized the ignorance of those creating such content regarding its real-world implications. There are plans from the government to criminalize the creation and distribution of sexually explicit deepfakes. Mordaunt also raised concerns about children being exposed to deepfake content online, suggesting it could cause psychological harm.
"The people behind this... don't realise the consequences in the real world when they do something like that... It plays across into people taking actual real world actions against ourselves."
"It was violating... it was kind of me and not me," she said, explaining the video displayed her face but not her hair.
"The worry for me is actually more with children... If they did, they'd be in therapy. But we have seemed to be perfectly happy for them to see it online."
Earlier this year, the government unveiled plans to make the creation or distribution of sexually explicit deepfakes a criminal offence, following a surge in their proliferation over recent years.
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