About this episode

The episode revisits an interview about the legal challenges posed by deepfake pornography.

If you weren’t taking deepfakes seriously before, it’s too late now to ignore them. According to new research from Malwarebytes , one in three people who use AI every day said it’s okay to generate pornography of people without their consent. Nearly 10 years ago, “deepfake” technology provided hobbyists and film editors with artificial intelligence (AI) tools to swap the face of one person onto the body of another. In its infancy, this technology brought silly film experiments like swapping Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible with Keanu Reeves. Today, this same technology produces something far more harmful—fake nude images of teenagers. On the Lock and Code podcast today with host David Ruiz, we are re-visiting an interview from 2024, in which we spoke with a lawyer named David Chiu about his lawsuit against 16 deepfake nude generation websites . The websites named in that lawsuit often needed just one image of a person to generate fake pornography. And while nearly everyone has at least one image of themselves online, even if they had hundreds, the path towards deletion is somewhat understood—start by deactivating and deleting popular social media accounts. But for teenagers…

People in this episode

Host: David Ruiz

Guest: David Chiu

Topics covered

• deepfakes
• AI technology
• online privacy
• legal issues
• teen safety

Keywords

• deepfake
• pornography
• AI
• privacy
• lawsuit
• Malwarebytes
• teenagers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Malwarebytes

Books & works: Mission Impossible

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