Kate Isaacs, Advocate Against Image-Based Abuse, Reports Being Deepfaked

October 21, 2022

London-based activist Kate Isaacs, founder of the #NotYourPorn campaign, fell victim to a deepfake incident. Her face was reportedly manipulated onto a pornographic video using AI and distributed online, resulting in streams of abuse, doxing, and threats of violence. The attack followed her efforts to pressure PornHub to remove unverified content.

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Alleged deployer: unknown-twitter-user
Alleged developer: unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
Alleged harmed parties: kate-isaacs

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/904

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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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