MIT Technology Review · AIMay 14, 2026, 17:00 UTC+8

The Shock of Seeing Your Body Used in Deepfake Porn

The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn

MIT Technology Review documents Jennifer and other adult content creators whose bodies were used in NCII deepfakes, with examples spanning Jennifer’s circa-2013 video and the 2017 Reddit “deepfakes” uploads involving celebrity face swaps.

Why it matters: HKR-H and HKR-R are strong, with HKR-K from named cases and the 2013-to-2017 deepfake lineage. This is a high-quality safety/policy feature, not a model or product release, so it sits at the featured threshold.

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AI porn abuse keeps getting framed as whose face was pasted onto sex. This piece forces the harder question: whose body and performance became the substrate. Jennifer ran a 2023 professional headshot through facial recognition and found a circa-2013 porn video with someone else’s face on her body. The lineage goes back to the 2017 Reddit “deepfakes” account using Scarlett Johansson and Gal Gadot face swaps on porn actors.

For model builders and platforms, takedown is the small problem. The bigger liability is training data and generated body behavior. MIT TR says performers’ bodies are no longer only copied from identifiable clips; they also sink into nudify apps and AI nude priors. Copyright can argue over the video. NCII law usually follows the face. The labor embedded in the body is still mostly invisible to safety evals.

Source: MIT Technology Review · AI · technologyreview.com
Published: May 14, 2026, 17:00 UTC+8 · May 14, 2026