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An image of the TikTok phone app in front of a laptop featuring the front page to Australia's eSafety commissioner website, taken in Perth, Western Australia on Jan. 20, 2024. Wade Zhong/The Epoch Times
eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has revealed that sexual deepfakes have exploded by over five times every year on average since 2019.
Deepfakes are fake videos and pictures of a person in which their face or body has been digitally modified by software or AI (artificial intelligence) to make the person appear as somebody else.
Alfred Bui is an Australian reporter based in Melbourne and focuses on local and business news. He is a former small business owner and has two master’s degrees in business and business law. Contact him at [email protected].
