The Rising Threat of Deepfakes in the AI Era.

Experts fear that the development of generative AI tools could worsen the problem of nonconsensual deepfake pornography, which primarily harms women. Deepfakes are videos and images that have been digitally created or altered with artificial intelligence or machine learning. The problem grew as it became easier to make sophisticated and visually compelling deepfakes. Some AI models and social media companies are already curbing access to explicit images, but governing the internet is next to impossible when countries have their own laws for content that’s sometimes made halfway around the world.