Could a picture that never existed still change someone's life?

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A November 2025 report by United Nations Women, co-authored by Laura Bates, founder of The Everyday Sexism Project, provides further evidence of this imbalance in the AI industry.…

Artificial intelligence may be changing the world, but not all of its advances are progress.

From fabricated intimate images to deepfake pornography, AI is creating new ways to target women and girls, with the scale of the problem growing alongside the technology.

According to a 2023 study by Security Hero, a United States-focused consumer digital privacy platform and review site, the number of deepfake videos online increased by 550 per cent between 2019 and 2023. Deepfake pornography makes up 98 per cent of all deepfake videos online, with 99 per cent targeting women.

The problem extends beyond deepfakes. Research by the Australian National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS) found that sexual and image-based abuse was one of the four most common forms of technology-facilitated abuse, alongside monitoring and controlling behaviours, emotional abuse, and threats and harassment.

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Published in 2022, the study surveyed more than 4,500 Australian adults about their experiences of technology-facilitated abuse. It found more than half had experienced at least one form of abuse, with the rate rising to 71.5 per cent among 18- to-24-year-olds.

One in four adults had experienced sexual and image-based abuse. Participants reported feeling controlled, humiliated, depressed and afraid as a result.

In a statement to SBS News, ANROWS CEO Tessa Boyd-Caine said: "We are seeing people who use violence quickly adapting their abuse to utilise new technologies such as location tracking, controlling vehicles remotely and image-based sexual abuse."

"Technology can change the reach, persistence and scale of abuse, making it constant, even when people are physically apart.

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