CBC News’s visual investigations team exposes the Canadian who played a key role in MrDeepFakes.com, the world’s most notorious website for explicit AI-generated videos.
A Danish MP is calling for the extradition of the Canadian pharmacist behind a notorious porn site that hosted deepfake images of celebrities, politicians, social media influencers and others, including prominent Canadian and Danish women.
Last week, Danish MP Søren Søndergaard submitted a letter to the country’s justice minister asking whether Danish authorities would demand that Canada extradite David Do so he can face prosecution in Denmark and to explain their reasoning if not.
Deepfakes use artificial intelligence tools to insert a person’s face into another photo or video. There are free tools to do this, including “nudify” apps for explicit deepfakes, but high-quality ones require thousands of images of a victim in addition to expensive computer hardware and technical know-how.
Sharing non-consensual deepfake pornography can be punished by up to six months in prison under Denmark’s …