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The most urgent threat of deepfakes isn’t politics. It’s porn. | Vox

Kristen Bell first found out there were deepfake porn videos of her online from her husband, the actor Dax Shepard. In the videos, her face has been manipulated onto porn performers’ bodies.

“I was just shocked,” Bell told me. “It’s hard to think about that I’m being exploited.”

And this isn’t only happening to celebrities. Noelle Martin, a recent law graduate in Perth, Australia, discovered that someone took photos she’d shared on social media and used them first to photoshop her into nude images, and then to create deepfake videos.

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Source: The most urgent threat of deepfakes isn’t politics. It’s porn. | Vox