AI deepfakes target women in unprecedented numbers
Deepfake pornography makes up 98% of all deepfakes online, with 99% targeting women.
Why it matters
This abuse reshapes power dynamics and safety online, turning everyday platforms into tools for harm that persist indefinitely.
In Australia. Australia is actively enforcing against these services, but women's safety online remains at risk as AI tools outpace regulation.
Key facts
- 550% increase between 2019 and 2023
- Deepfake surge
- 30% of world's AI professionals
- Women in AI
- Artificial intelligence is creating new weapons for abuse.
- Between 2019 and 2023, deepfake videos online surged by 550 per cent, with nearly all of them being non-consensual intimate images targeting women.
- Australian research involving more than 4,500 adults found that more than half had experienced at least one form of technology-facilitated abuse.
- The rate rose to 71.5 per cent among 18- to 24-year-olds.
- One in four adults reported sexual or image-based abuse through tech.
- Victims reported feeling controlled, humiliated, depressed and afraid.
- Some female politicians are disproportionately targeted.
- Australia's eSafety Commissioner revealed that 'nudify' apps are downloaded about 200,000 times monthly in Australia.
