Deepfake sites host explicit fakes of 100+ European politicians

An analysis of 160 deepfake websites found sexually explicit, fabricated images of more than 100 politicians across 22 European countries. Nearly all of the targeted politicians are women.

Why it matters: This is concrete evidence that AI-generated non-consensual imagery has moved from targeting celebrities to targeting sitting elected officials at scale, putting the people who write image-abuse and deepfake legislation among its direct victims. That dynamic tends to accelerate regulation faster than abstract harm reports do.