One in four unconcerned by sexual deepfakes created without consent, survey finds

According to a survey commissioned by the British police, one in four individuals consider themselves “neutral” (12% of responses) or believe that there is nothing wrong with using deepfake technology to create erotic content (13%), even when the subjects depicted have not given their consent. The main topic of the survey is, to all intents and purposes, an illegal act, yet it seems that some participants do not give the crime in question the importance it deserves.

The current desensitisation towards this technology and its increasingly widespread sexual use are inevitably accelerating violence against women, and the tech companies involved are complicit. They are also partly responsible, as they provide the fastest and cheapest method of creating this kind of material.

The entire practice is not only an illegal act under current law, but also under the new Data Act.