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Downranking won't stop Google's deepfake porn problem, victims say

Delisting non-consensual deepfake porn on Google is "draining," victim says.

Over the past year, Google has been driving millions to controversial sites distributing AI-generated pornography depicting real people in fake sex videos that were created without their consent, Similarweb found. So although US-based search traffic to the most popular two deepfake porn sites has decreased by as much as 25 percent "in the first 10 days of May compared with the prior six months’ average," Bloomberg reported, victims are still struggling to work with Google to stop the spread. According to Jankowicz, passing the federal law "won’t solve the deepfake problem," because "the Internet is forever," "AI grows more powerful by the month," and users generating this content are "remarkably nonchalant about the invasion of privacy they are perpetrating."

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