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Incident 904: Kate Isaacs, Advocate Against Image-Based Abuse, Reports Being Deepfaked

Description: Kate Isaacs, a London-based activist and founder of the #NotYourPorn campaign, was targeted in a deepfake incident. Her face was alleged to have been digitally manipulated onto a pornographic video using AI and shared online. The reported video, tagged with her name, is alleged to have led to streams of abuse, doxing, and threats of violence. The attack reportedly followed her efforts to pressure PornHub to remove unverified content.
Editor Notes: A note on the timeline of this event: The specific timing of this incident remains unclear. The #NotYourPorn campaign is reported to have succeeded in pressuring PornHub to remove 10 million unverified videos in 2020. It is reported that the deepfaked video itself appeared sometime in 2020 as well. The initial reporting on the deepfake incident is dated 10/21/2022.

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Alleged: Unknown deepfake technology developer developed an AI system deployed by Unknown Twitter user, which harmed Kate Isaacs.
Alleged implicated AI system: Unknown deepfake app

Incident Stats

Incident ID
904
Report Count
8
Incident Date
2022-10-21
Editors
Daniel Atherton

Incident Reports

Reports Timeline

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Deepfaked: ‘They put my face on a porn video’ - BBC News
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‘I discovered deepfake porn of myself online’
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'My stomach dropped after I saw internet clip with my face - but it wasn't me'
The real women whose faces have been used by AI to create deepfake X-rated images
Deepfaked: ‘They put my face on a porn video’ - BBC News

Deepfaked: ‘They put my face on a porn video’ - BBC News

bbc.co.uk

Deepfake porn wrecks lives - but it takes just 8 seconds to make image

Deepfake porn wrecks lives - but it takes just 8 seconds to make image

dailymail.co.uk

Deepfake porn wreck lives, but as one woman discovered, it takes seconds to make

Deepfake porn wreck lives, but as one woman discovered, it takes seconds to make

metro.co.uk

‘I discovered deepfake porn of myself online’

‘I discovered deepfake porn of myself online’

independent.co.uk

The world of deep fake porn: How fabricated videos are being used to harm women

The world of deep fake porn: How fabricated videos are being used to harm women

inews.co.uk

'My stomach dropped after I saw internet clip with my face - but it wasn't me'

'My stomach dropped after I saw internet clip with my face - but it wasn't me'

mirror.co.uk

'Sicko imposed my face on sex scene – it took me ages to clock it wasn't me'

'Sicko imposed my face on sex scene – it took me ages to clock it wasn't me'

dailystar.co.uk

The real women whose faces have been used by AI to create deepfake X-rated images

The real women whose faces have been used by AI to create deepfake X-rated images

mirror.co.uk

Deepfaked: ‘They put my face on a porn video’ - BBC News
bbc.co.uk · 2022

Imagine if your face had been digitally edited into a porn video without your consent and then shared on the internet. One woman reveals the horror of it happening to her.

Scrolling through her Twitter feed one evening, Kate Isaacs stumbled…

Deepfake porn wrecks lives - but it takes just 8 seconds to make image
dailymail.co.uk · 2022

Scrolling through her phone, Kate Isaacs opened Twitter and spotted a post that consumed her with terror.

Someone had publicly tweeted an explicit video of what looked like her having sex.

'This panic just washed over me,' Kate told Metro.c…

Deepfake porn wreck lives, but as one woman discovered, it takes seconds to make
metro.co.uk · 2022

Scrolling through her phone in 2020, Kate Isaacs opened up her Twitter to see a post that consumed her with sheer terror.

Someone had publicly tweeted an explicit video of what looked like her having sex.

With no recollection of ever being …

‘I discovered deepfake porn of myself online’
independent.co.uk · 2022

A woman has revealed what it was like to discover deepfake porn of herself on the internet.

Kate Isaacs said it was “violating” to fall victim to “deepfakes” – explicit images or videos which have been manipulated to look like someone witho…

The world of deep fake porn: How fabricated videos are being used to harm women
inews.co.uk · 2022

'It was the most terrifying thing I’ve ever experienced. I didn't want to walk home or be alone... essentially, it was about silencing me', says victim Kate Isaacs

When Kate Isaacs first saw the video she was confused. It showed the bodies …

'My stomach dropped after I saw internet clip with my face - but it wasn't me'
mirror.co.uk · 2023

A 30-year-old woman said her stomach "dropped" when she saw a deepfake porn clip featuring her face.

Kate Isaacs first saw the video while scrolling through Twitter and recalled "feeling hot" when she realised that the woman in the footage …

'Sicko imposed my face on sex scene – it took me ages to clock it wasn't me'
dailystar.co.uk · 2023

A woman was stunned to discover her face had been plastered onto deepfake porn that was posted to a public Twitter account.

Kate Isaacs said she was scrolling through Twitter and was horrified to see that a porn film posted to the site show…

The real women whose faces have been used by AI to create deepfake X-rated images
mirror.co.uk · 2024

Taylor Swift fans were recently left horrified after deepfake pornographic images of the singer were circulated online, prompting a group of US senators to introduce a bill to criminalise the practice of sharing non-consensual artificial in…

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A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.

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