### The Rise of Nonconsensual Deepfake Pornography
#### A Growing Concern
For years, nonconsensual deepfake pornography has been a tool for harassment, silencing, shaming, and abusing women. Celebrities and influencers are often targeted, with their images manipulated into explicit content without their consent. Recently, there has been a glimmer of hope as lawmakers in some countries have announced plans to criminalize the creation of nonconsensual explicit deepfakes.
#### Expert Opinions
“These creators of sexually explicit deepfakes have no regard whatsoever for the women and girls who are victims of sex trafficking and now being further abused through this deepfake sexual abuse,”
says Clare McGlynn, a professor of law at [Durham University](https://www.dur.ac.uk/).
#### Legal Challenges
Despite these legislative efforts, experts like DeBarber argue that current laws are insufficient.
“Our laws are written in a way that protects intellectual property but not survivors, and it’s very demeaning for a lot of our survivors,”
he says. “These are people that were treated like a commodity, and now we have to use intellectual property law to get it down.”
### Moving Forward
The fight against nonconsensual deepfake pornography is ongoing, and while new laws are a step in the right direction, more comprehensive measures are needed to protect survivors and hold perpetrators accountable.
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Is exploiting someone’s trauma for digital manipulation even real journalism?
Revictimizing survivors with deepfakes? Absolutely reprehensible!
Exploiting survivors’ trauma with deepfakes is just sick.
Creators behind these deepfakes need serious consequences!
Using deepfakes to re-traumatize survivors is beyond despicable!
Evelyn White: The level of exploitation here is both staggering and revolting, how do they sleep at night?