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Sputnik International
AI expert warns 180,000 deepfake porn videos of innocent people will be online in 2021
Deepfake technology can can create porn clips featuring anyone – and in 2021 we can expect more AI-created videos intended to destabilise governments, warns expert Nina Schick
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Leonie Bos
An increasingly large proportion of video content online will be synthetic in 2021 â meaning wholly or partially generated by AI. Some of it will be benign, and even hilarious, such as the YouTubers who are using the power of AI to deepfake Nicolas Cage into every Hollywood movie ever made â but there will be plenty that have been created with wholly malicious intent.
Indeed, the first widespread use of synthetic media â non-consensual deepfake pornography, which almost exclusively targets women â has proliferated wildly since it first emerged at the end of 2017. According to Amsterdam-based cybersecurity startup Sensity, which was founded in 2018 to combat deepfakes in the visual media, the number of deepfake pornography videos online is doubling every six months, and by next summer, there will be 180,000 available to view. By 2022, that number will have reached 720,000.