Dinniah Bartholomew
JACOB Elordi and other celebrities have been targeted by disturbing deepfakes that have been going viral online.
The Euphoria star has become the latest victim of non-consensual deepfakes, that have taken a disturbing turn.
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Some of the deepfakes of Elordi circulating on X, (formerly known as Twitter) have been seen three million times, according to NBC News.
The videos shared have been sexually explicit and falsely labeled as a “leak” of the famous actor.
An OnlyFans creator claims someone has been using his body for the fake posts, according to the outlet.
He said that at the time of creating the video, he was only 17, and has commented on multiple posts to have it removed from X.
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Since April 2023, that platform has added a policy banning “synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm.”
X also prohibits content that “sexualizes an individual without their consent.”
However, the content still manages to circulate on the app.
People have been creating deepfakes by using AI to manipulate and replace someone’s likeness with another.
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In recent years, scammers and trolls have been using the technology to impose a person’s face onto explicit imagery or videos.
Celebrities like Taylor Swift and Megan Thee Stallion have also recently become victims of deepfakes.
Some trolls even used AI to create political deepfakes to interfere with upcoming elections.
‘DISGUSTING AND EVIL’
While Elordi has not commented on the recent deepfakes, other celebrities have called out the harmful ways scammers have been their image.
Most recently, Kate Beckinsale had to make a public warning after multiple people messaged her about their family members being scammed by catfishes.
“This is such a s—ty horrible thing to do and it’s not the first time an elderly man has been scammed out of actually a lot of money – hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Beckinsale wrote on Instagram.
“Whoever is doing this is disgusting and evil.”
Deepfakes – what are they, and how do they work?
Here’s what you need to know…
- Deepfakes are phoney videos of people that look perfectly real
- They’re made using computers to generate convincing representations of events that never happened
- Often, this involves swapping the face of one person onto another, or making them say whatever you want
- The process begins by feeding an AI hundreds or even thousands of photos of the victim
- A machine learning algorithm swaps out certain parts frame-by-frame until it spits out a realistic, but fake, photo or video
- In one famous deepfake clip, comedian Jordan Peele created a realistic video of Barack Obama in which the former President called Donald Trump a “dipsh*t”
- In another, the face of Will Smith is pasted onto the character of Neo in the action flick The Matrix. Smith famously turned down the role to star in flop movie Wild Wild West, while the Matrix role went to Keanu Reeves
She told her followers to use the post as blanket confirmation that these catfishes are not her.
“Any message pretending to me is a scammer and I will never be dming anyone asking for money.”
Trolls using Beckinsale’s photos have put her in dangerous situations.
It was revealed that things had gotten so bad, that random men began showing up at her house.
“During lockdown, several men had been catfished to the degree that they flew to Los Angeles from out of state, had been given my home address, and arrived on my doorstep late at night (on different nights, over a couple of week period) thinking we were in some sort of relationship,” she wrote in a since-deleted 2023 Instagram post, per The Independent
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“My boyfriend at the time and I were completely freaked out, the catfished guys were humiliated and some of them arrested, the scammers weren’t caught and I ended up ultimately having to move house.”
“So long story short, if you think I’m messaging you, it’s not me.”
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