Deepfake Harassment: Noelle Martin's Battle Against AI-Generated Pornography - A Case for Responsible AI Governance
February 6, 2020
In 2017, Noelle Martin encountered explicit deepfake videos online, where her face was superimposed onto pornographic scenes using AI technology. This incident, a continuation of abuse since at least 2012, underscores the need for trustworthy and safe AI. Her advocacy led to image-based abuse becoming a criminal offense in Australia. Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US (This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM)).
- Alleged deployer
- unknown-deepfake-creators
- Alleged developer
- stanford-university, max-planck-institute, university-of-erlangen-nuremberg, face2face, faceapp, zao
- Alleged harmed parties
- noelle-martin
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/771
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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