Deepfakes are about to make revenge porn so much worse

This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring what it means to be a woman on the internet. 

When the world realized late last year that you could convincingly superimpose one person’s face onto another person’s face in a video, it was because men used the “deepfake” technology to force their favorite actresses to appear in their pornography of choice. Of course, they boasted about it on Reddit and 4chan, which prompted a frantic debate about the ethics of using artificial intelligence to swap people’s faces — and identities. 

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