Incident 754: Female Politicians in the United Kingdom Reportedly Victimized by Purported Deepfake Pornography

Description: Female politicians in the United Kingdom, including Angela Rayner, Gillian Keegan, Penny Mordaunt, Priti Patel, Stella Creasy, and Dehenna Davison, have reportedly been targeted by nonconsensual, purportedly AI-generated deepfake pornography. The images, which some accounts suggest may have circulated online for an extended period, were reported to have caused distress and, in at least some instances, to have prompted reports to or involvement by law enforcement.

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Alleged: Unknown deepfake technology developers and Unknown image generator developers developed an AI system deployed by Unknown deepfake creators, which harmed Stella Creasy , Priti Patel , Penny Mordaunt , Gillian Keegan , Dehenna Davison , Angela Rayner , Epistemic integrity , Women , Female politicians and Female politicians in the United Kingdom.

Alleged implicated AI systems: Unknown deepfake technology and Unknown image generator technology

Incident Stats

Incident ID

754

Report Count

Incident Date

2024-07-01

Editors

Daniel Atherton

Applied Taxonomies

MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified

Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

4.3. Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation

Risk Domain

Malicious Actors & Misuse

Entity

Timing

Post-deployment

Intent

Intentional

Incident Reports

Reports Timeline

British female politicians targeted by fake pornography

theguardian.com

We must fight the deepfake future

newstatesman.com

Deepfakes are undermining faith in politics

observer.co.uk

theguardian.com · 2024

British female politicians have become the victims of fake pornography, with some of their faces used in nude images created using artificial intelligence.

Political candidates targeted on one prominent fake pornography website include: the…

newstatesman.com · 2025

Penny Mordaunt broadsworded her way into Britain's collective imagination when she became the unexpected breakout star of King Charles III's May 2023 coronation. We had lost one stoic queen; here was another. Mordaunt bore the Sword of Stat…

observer.co.uk · 2026

n October, the Tory MP George Freeman found himself bombarded by messages from friends and colleagues accusing him of betrayal. "They were calling me unrepeatable names, saying, 'I never thought you'd do that to us.' I didn't understand wha…

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