I created a deepfake sex video of myself. It led to vile abuse and cast a shadow over my marriage... but I have no regrets: VICKY PATTISON reveals the truth behind sick porn taking over the internet - and what happened when she met the men behind it
I created a deepfake sex video of myself. It led to vile abuse and cast a shadow over my marriage... but I have no regrets: VICKY PATTISON reveals the truth behind sick porn taking over the internet - and what happened when she met the men behind it
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Vicky Pattison has uploaded a picture of herself, fully clothed, into one of the new and easily accessible ‘undressing’ apps. The horror she feels on seeing the almost instant results, as she is digitally derobed, is visceral. She instinctively puts her hand to the screen to block the view of ‘her’ naked flesh. Then, as she forces herself to look, she feels sick.
![[Her documentary Vicky Pattison: My Deepfake Sex Tape, about the murky world of deepfake porn, aired on Channel 4 to a great brouhaha]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/19/94608425-14334885-image-m-10_1738092399531.jpg)
‘I hadn’t expected it to look so realistic,’ she says now. ‘I thought the “body” that I’d be given would be like a porn star’s – so fake that it would be immediately obvious it wasn’t real. But it was entirely real, right down to the squishy bits I have.
![[The documentary took VIcky on a dark journey that saw her employ actors, have them film an explicit sex scene then work with digital experts to splice her own face onto the footage]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/19/94608423-14334885-image-m-11_1738092424291.jpg)
‘I had this visceral reaction, thinking: “God, that’s me! And I’m showing everyone this on telly.”. ‘I had to take a breath and even tell myself: “No, it’s not real. This isn’t me.”. ‘Then your mind goes to, “What if I was a 14-year-old girl now?” This is so, so dangerous. It made me feel physically sick – and angry.’.
![['I was in control the whole time, but even then it gave me an idea what the real victims go through,' she said]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/19/94608459-14334885-image-m-1_1738093561127.jpg)
Vicky worked with programme makers to create her own deepfake sex tape before leaking the hyper-realistic footage on X, only to later reveal it was all done as part of the documentary. If she was angry about this, though, imagine how Vicky, 37, felt when she repeated the process, but uploading an image of her husband instead.
![[Vicky with husband Ercan Ramadan. The couple are thinking of starting a family. 'What if we have daughters?' asks VIcky. 'What sort of world is this to bring them into?']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/19/94608461-14334885-image-m-8_1738092357884.jpg)
All the arguments about these types of apps being ‘just a bit of fun’ immediately went out the window when the ‘undressed’ image of Ercan Ramadan – her husband of only a few weeks, at this stage – showed him not as a naked male, but with women’s breasts and genitalia. She didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at first. Then the rage descended.
