

put a recognizable facsimile of a person’s head “on” the body of an actor in a pornographic video - may be, it’s inescapably fiction and expression, and entitled to the same protection as other fiction and expression. I don’t blame her for not liking it one bit.īut creepy as deepfake porn - essentially using software to e.g. That’s presumptively both discomfiting and disgusting. She recently discovered that she’s been a subject of it.


Jankowicz, who served as Executive Director of the federal government’s now-defunct “Disinformation Governance Board,” has good reason to be upset with the phenomenon of deepfake porn. “Some [creators/distributors of ‘deepfake’ pornography,” Nina Jankowicz writes at The Atlantic, “seem to believe that they have a right to distribute these images - that because they fed a publicly available photo of a woman into an application engineered to make pornography, they have created art or a legitimate work of parody.”
