Channel 4 branded 'gross and insulting' over Vicky Pattison deepfake porn doc by abuse survivors
Channel 4 branded 'gross and insulting' over Vicky Pattison deepfake porn doc by abuse survivors
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Channel 4 has faced backlash from survivors of AI deepfake pornography for using the same technology in the new documentary, Vicky Pattison: My Deepfake Sex Tape. Pattison released an AI-generated explicit clip ahead of the documentary, which showed her face superimposed onto a performer taking part in a sex act.
Survivor Jodie, 23, told the outlet that the decision to use the deepfake footage of Pattison “lacked compassion” and was in “poor taste”. “Survivor organisations strongly advised against it when they were approached by producers. So it’s just in really, really poor taste that they sought out advice and then ignored it completely,” she told The Guardian.
She continued: “I don’t think that someone that really intricately understood the effect of this abuse on someone would do this if they actually had compassion for the survivors.”. Jodie’s Instagram photos were sent by her friend to an Incel forum where they were turned into pornographic images.
One campaigner, whose group was involved in the initial research stages of the documentary, told The Guardian: “You wouldn’t go and do a documentary where you get into a physically violent and abusive relationship to experience how it feels. “So why is it acceptable as a premise for a documentary to do this with online harm?”.
