Is it legal to swap someone’s face into porn without consent?

For victims of revenge porn and other explicit material shared without consent, legal remedies have arrived only within the last decade. But thanks to AI-assisted technology, anyone with an online presence could now end up starring in pornography against their will — and there’s little that the law can do about it.

For the past several weeks, a subreddit called “deepfakes” has been saturated with doctored images that depict famous figures, mostly women, engaging in sexual acts, where their faces are believably mapped onto pornographic pictures, GIFs, or videos. “ScarJo, take three” appears to show Scarlett Johansson masturbating in a shower. “Taylor Swift” is a blurry-faced shot of the singer being penetrated. “Emma Watson sex tape”...

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