From Just Asking with Saroja Coelho
Deepfakes and A.I. generated, non-consensual intimate imagery
By Saroja Coelho
The man behind the world’s most notorious website for non-consensual, AI-generated porn of real people is a hospital pharmacist from just outside of Toronto according to a CBC investigation. His site, MrDeepFakes, was the world's most popular site for “deepfake” porn, hosting tens of thousands of non-consensual and sometimes violent fake videos and images of celebrities, politicians, social media influencers and private citizens, including Canadians. To answer your questions about deepfakes, Just Asking spoke to two guests. Hany Farid is a professor at the University of California and a member of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Lab. Suzie Dunn is a professor of law at Dalhousie University, specializing in technology.
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
