Washington Post: Fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass women: ‘Everybody is a potential target’

“Deepfake” creators are making disturbingly realistic, computer-generated videos with photos taken from the Web, and ordinary women are suffering the damage.

How fake-porn opponents are fighting back: The best hope for fighting computer-generated fake-porn videos might come from a surprising source: the artificial intelligence software itself.

Technical experts and online trackers say they are developing tools that could automatically spot these “deepfakes” by using the software’s skills against it, deploying image-recognition algorithms that could help detect the ways their imagery bends belief.