Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recounts horror of seeing herself in ‘deepfake porn’
Progressive New York congresswoman describes resurfacing of trauma when seeing explicit materials with her image transposed on to them
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has described her horror at discovering – midway through a discussion with aides during a car journey in February – that she had been transposed into a “deepfake porn” simulation generated by artificial intelligence and posted on X.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, the progressive congresswoman said the experience of coming up close to a depiction of herself performing a sex act had shown her that being deepfaked was “not as imaginary as people want to make it seem”.
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