Deepfake Abuse is a Crisis w/ Kat Tenbarge - Video

Paris Marx is joined by Kat Tenbarge to discuss the proliferation of AI-generated, non-consensual sexual images, their impact on the victims, and the potential fallout for tech companies who helped make it all possible. Note there is some discussion of self-harm and suicide in this episode.

Kat Tenbarge is a tech and culture writer at NBC News.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/techwontsaveus) .

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Kat has reported extensively on this issue, including stories about fake nude images of underage celebrities toping search engine results (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/fake-nude-photos-faces-underage-celebrities-top-search-engine-results-rcna136828) , nonconsensual deepfake porn showing up on Google and Bing (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/google-bing-deepfake-porn-image-celebrity-rcna130445) too, Visa and Mastercard being used to fund (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/deepfake-porn-ai-mr-deep-fake-economy-google-visa-mastercard-download-rcna75071) the deepfake economy, and why plans for watermarking (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/watermark-deepfake-solution-ai-misinformation-cant-stop-de-rcna137370) aren’t enough.
• Another Body (https://anotherbodyfilm.com) is a documentary that looks at the scale of the problem of non-consensual deepfake explicit images.
• Microsoft’s Designer AI tool (https://www.404media.co/microsoft-closes-loophole-that-created-ai-porn-of-taylor-swift/) was used to create AI porn of Taylor Swift.
• Middle and high schools in Seattle (https://www.404media.co/what-was-she-supposed-to-report-police-report-shows-how-a-high-school-deepfake-nightmare-unfolded/) , Miami (https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/8/24094633/deepfake-ai-explicit-images-florida-teenagers-arrested) , and Beverley Hills (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/beverly-hills-school-expels-students-deepfake-nude-photos-rcna142480) are among those already facing the consequences of AI-generated and deepfake nude images.
• In 2014, Jennifer Lawrence called (https://apnews.com/7d27681e80de43ff8296b08af5742f31) the iCloud photo hack a “sex crime.”Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)