You wake up on Election Day and unlock your phone to a shaky video of your state capitol. In the hectic footage, smoke billows from the statehouse. In other clips posted alongside it, gunshots ring out in the distance. You think to yourself: Maybe better to skip the polling booth today. Only later do you learn that the videos were AI forgeries.
A friend calls you, distraught. An anonymous acquaintance has put her in a series of pornographic deepfakes, and now the videos are spreading from site to site. The police told her to contact a lawyer, but the cease-and-desist letters aren’t working.
You are a famous actor. A major tech
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