‘Haunting’ to see deepfake pornography of myself, says journalist Cathy Newman Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman has said she found deepfake pornography of herself “haunting” and kept on “returning to the images”.
Beech said: “I was just contacted out of the blue and someone said ‘There’s an explicit image of you’, and I said ‘Well, that can’t be true’, because I knew I hadn’t taken anything like that.
Newman discussed her experience on ITV’s Good Morning Britain (GMB) on Tuesday, alongside former Love Island contestant Cally Jane Beech, who said she had discovered an explicit, digitally altered image of herself on a website.
The 50-year-old journalist became her own “case study” in an investigation that found at least 250 British celebrities have been victims of the online phenomenon where victims’ faces and/or bodies are superimposed onto pornography using artificial intelligence (AI).
The 33-year-old found where the site was being hosted and said it advertised that it could strip women’s clothes when users upload images.
