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Once upon a
time, the sun was shining.

And it went up into the sky.

Math and
science make sense.

Numbers don't lie and aren't
really up for interpretation.

I come from a long
line of engineers.

Both my parents are engineers.

My grandfather is an engineer.
My cousin is an engineer.

My uncle is an engineer.
I'm an engineer.

My other cousin's
going for engineering,

like everyone in the family.

We're all a bunch of nerds.

Yes. We have a marble,
a wedge and blocks.

My mom is like the hardest
working person that I know,

so that naturally kind of led
me and my brother to believe

that like we could be really,
really hard working people.

I always just wanted
to like make her proud.

I'll admit it. I liked school.

I always did my homework.
I never once cheated.

I never once, like,
broke the rules

because I was too scared
what would happen if I did?

And also, just like, I didn't
want to break the rules.

Whoa! Holy smokes.

I think my teachers
were concerned because

I was worried about college
when I was in seventh grade.

Like, I was like stressing
out about getting into college

when I was 12.

I think I'm definitely
very concerned about

how others perceive me.

I was sitting
here with my boyfriend

and my face popped
up on the screen.

And it was just shocking.
Like seeing my face.

Looking at the camera.

Basically making
eye contact with me.

I had actually been getting
messages from guys on Instagram.

It clicked like, oh my God,

people were messaging me
because they found me on...

on a porn website.

I was just...

first of all shocked that, like,
my name and my face were on there.

I didn't even, like, register

that my school and my hometown

were also on there.

And then just seeing
like, oh my God,

these videos have
thousands of views on them.

There were, I think,
six or seven videos on Pornhub.

And there's also an
Xhamster account.

People were commenting
like disgusting things,

and I had to read that

and know that like...
they know my face.

Like these people now
know what I look like

and they know my name and
they know where I'm from.

I was scared that these people

who thought it was actually me

would actually try
to come find me.

And excuse my language,
hearing that the next time

someone's in your hometown,

they're going to fuck
you, is just terrifying.

I still just haven't
really processed it.

Uh...

It's...

It's like one of those things
that's too upsetting to think about.

So I just don't.

That night I was
supposed to hop on a Zoom call

to play golf with friends.

I just wanted to
be numb, basically.

And then I drank.

I was making jokes
about it like,

"No one thought I was
going to be a porn star,"

stupid jokes that, just,
like, help me laugh

laugh at the situation
a little bit.

I didn't want to, like,
feel any of that anymore.

I didn't want to feel scared.

I didn't want to feel like
I was going to get hurt.

In bed that night, I kind
of just, like, broke.

I felt very like... dirty.

It was the end of the
night, and I was like...

all you have left at
that point is just, like,

you're kind of alone
with your feelings.

And then it kind of hit me
what had actually happened.

I kept asking myself:

"Why would someone...
want to do this?"

And, "Who would do this?"

I felt like... someone's
trying to... punish me.

This is synthetic.

Read my lips.

Deepfake videos
which are manipulated using AI

can make someone
appear as though

they're saying or doing
something that they're not.

My face is Ellen's.

My voice is Michelle's.

Ellen did not say these words.

Frame after
frame after frame,

it synthesises a new appearance

to match the expression of the
person in the original video.

These
manipulated images

can pose a very real
national security threat -

Fake videos could become
a real and present danger

to our democracy, Dana.

This is a threat they
believe could impact the election.

But the most pressing daily threat
of deepfakes isn't politics...

It's porn.

Right now, it is a violence
against women issue

and it has been since they entered
the public sphere in late 2018.

Teachers, social workers,

nurses, moms, teenagers.

Once these images are online,
they never truly go away.

They're out there and there
is no getting them back.

May 22, 2020.

In those first couple
of days, I was very paranoid.

It was just constant
worrying about, like,

are more people that I
know going to see this.

Are they going to see this
type of stuff on like,

background checks?

It kind of, like,
consumed what I did.

I was really worried
to tell my parents

because I thought that they
wouldn't really understand

what had happened, and maybe
in a way think that it was...

Um... my fault.

I was just in tears and...
just incredibly upset.

I was just terrified that
there was someone out there

who wanted to do this to me.

I didn't know what
their motives were,

I didn't know if their intent was
then to cause me physical harm.

It was this feeling of
like, I'm not safe anywhere.

I think it's really
important for me to stay anonymous

because I don't want this to
follow me throughout my life.

So...

my name isn't really Taylor,

and CTech isn't a real college.

All of this footage is of me,

but the face you're watching
right now isn't actually my face.

It's an actor's face
deepfaked over mine.

This is the only way I would
ever feel safe to tell my story.

God. We're
basically playing phone tag

with the police for
a couple of weeks.

The detective that got
assigned to the case

finally called me.

And I had to explain
the entire thing again.

So they said, "Someone
put porn of you online?"

And I was like, "No, someone
put my face on porn online."

And they seemed really confused
as to why that's wrong.

The detective was saying
weird things to me, like,

"“Oh, well, I need to look
closely at these videos

to make sure that it's you."

And, "I'm really going to
have to examine this."”

"“What have you done to
cause someone to do this to you?"”

After a couple of weeks,

I had called him again
and he said that:

"“It's disgusting what happened,

but the person had
a right to do it."

Like, they didn't
break any laws,

so they had a right to do that.

OK, it is now recording.

All right
it'’s recording.

Hopefully...
My head'’s in the center.

Hi, Adam

- Hi, Taylor.
- Do you have a...

pseudonym that I
should use or...

So nice of you to ask. No, you
can just call me Adam. It's fine.

I feel like
I'’m very nervous about,

talking about,
like, my experience.

Because I called
the state police,

and they basically told me,

you know, "We can't
do anything for you.

We're not going to
do anything for you."

I'm not surprised, but I'm
sorry to hear that's happened.

So, there are no deepfake
laws in your state.

Um...

There are a couple
in other states,

and there'’s no federal
law as it exists today.

I trained 500 judges
last year on deepfakes,

and I would say in excess of 90% of them
had never heard of a deepfake before.

Yeah.

With respect to
non-consensual pornography laws,

deepfakes typically don't fall
within the parameters of those laws,

because it's not
the victim's body.

That's why we typically
look for other ways,

false impersonation

or credible impersonation.

Now, the reality is it's very
easy to anonymize yourself online.

Yeah.

And... usually the
investigations I see

where they are able to
catch somebody is they -

there's like a second where
they didn't have their VPN on.

And that is the tiny hole
in that anonymous shield

that they're able to get through
it and prove who that person is.

I want to
find out who did this

because I want to know why.

I want to know what was
going through their head

when they decided to do this.

Clearly this person
wanted to emphasize

where I went to school.

One of my big concerns
is if they go to CTech,

because I'm going back to
start my Masters in the fall.

I don't want to be
on the same campus

as the person who did this to me

but I have no idea who they are.

Good girl.

OK, so I only have like
5 minutes to make this

because I have to go to work.

My boyfriend found another

video that the
person had uploaded,

so they uploaded a new video,
same profile, same shit.

Like, really? Like
you're not done yet.

You're not like, are
you not satisfied

with everything that
you've done so far?

I'm annoyed that the police
aren't taking care of this.

I'm annoyed that I
have to be the one

to find the evidence
and find, like

Like I should not be
doing their jobs for them.

So it's just. It's
just really annoying.

It's very frustrating.

So often
they told victims,

just turn your computer off,
ignore it, it'll go away.

Not only are these women
powerless to do anything about it,

but the law protects the websites
distributing these videos.

Tech companies, for
the last 20 years,

have had a spectacular gift
of shield from liability.

It's called Section 230 of the
Communications Decency Act.

It's the law that allows
sites to be hosted

in the United States

that absolves them of
any responsibility.

The tech industry
profits from it. They do.

They profit from
the most outrageous,

the most salacious...

This stuff is good for business.

OK so really, all I have
to say right now is holy fuck.

About 20 minutes
ago I found out that

I know the other girl
who this is happening to.

I lived with her
freshman year of college

like we used to be friends.
We know the same people.

We've pissed off,
the same people.

I just don't even know how
to feel right now. It's...

Obviously I'm pissed.
Like, I'm very angry.

I feel horrible that this
is also happening to her,

because I know how
it's affected me.

So I can only imagine how
it's also affected her.

I don't know what
to do right now.

This is crazy.

Um...

But yeah. Holy fuck.

This is - This is
really fucked up.

Hey, Julia.

Hi, what'’ up?

How'’s it,
how are you doing?

Good. How are you?

I'm good. I'm good.

This is definitely a weird
situation that we're in.

- Yeah.
- I mean, like

I don't know what information
like you have already,

but I called the police, they
haven't really done anything,

so I'm just trying to get as
much information as I can.

My name is
Julia in this film,

but that's not my real name.

I am a student and I went
to school with Taylor.

At first I started receiving
a bunch of Snapchat notifications

from people adding me...

And then finally I like accepted
one of the friend requests

and I was like, "Hey,
where did you add me from?"

And he was like, "“Oh, someone
posted your Snapchat on 4chan."”

We couldn't
find anything on 4chan,

but I also didn't
know how 4chan works,

so I had to have my
boyfriend explain it to me.

So 4chan
is an online forum

where people can
post anonymously,

and it can be very hard
to track their identities.

Sometimes photos can be used kind
of as currency on these forums.

So on 4chan there's threads

and a really common one is to
post, like, for a specific state.

So like mine was I think
under the Connecticut one

and people were
requesting pictures of me,

- like they were asking for me
by name. - Oh my God

It was just
like, it's super creepy.

I'm so sorry
this is happening to you.

This is horrible. I know how
I'm feeling through this.

So, like, it's just, this is... This
is fucked that someone's doing this.

Yeah.

I'm just more mad that they,
like, put my name out there

because I think, Kevin said, your
whole name was out there too.

Oh, yeah. My
name, CTech. My hometown.

Like everything.

Yeah, my
hometown was there, too.

It's like they're
slowly doxxing us.

A lot of people will
like doxx other people,

so they'll share like
their private information,

their address, their
credit card information,

their phone number,
locations of family members.

There is this mob mentality.

Thousands of people at one time

can just be focused on
harassing a single person.

For me, it was
probably like Mike or Alex,

if it was someone
from our floor.

Yeah, I thought...

You had problems with Alex
right? Like serious problems?

Oh, no, I definitely
had problems with Alex.

I don't know if... at the
end of, like, freshman year,

he basically just like...

went off on me and then has
been trying to contact me since.

Well, last I heard of
him, he wasn't doing too hot.

Mike was so quiet
like freshman year and not...

Yeah well I was like
friends with him for really like,

two years and I had
no problems with him.

And then all of a sudden...

I - Same thing.

He even deleted me
off of, like, video games.

Like, off my video game,
friend list. He was just done.

He like, did not...
Why is everyone going insane?

I don'’t know!
What is it about -

That's three now.

Wait, who else went
insane? Mike, Alex... Yeah, Bobby.

Holy shit, what
happened to Bobby?

I assume you've seen the things
he's saying to girls now on Twitter.

Oh, my God. I opened
his Twitter when I was at work

and then I was like,
oh my God, I feel like

I shouldn't be looking at
this on like company Wi-Fi.

It's just really
weird. I don't know.

Bobby was quiet, too.
It's all the quiet ones.

Yeah. Engineering is
going to do it to you.

What'’s good, bro?

Julia and I
actually both lived

on the engineering floor
together in college.

I lived with seven other guys
in our dorm freshman year.

We weren't like
stereotypical college kids.

You know how on
like college floors

they always have like
a bag of condoms?

Well, we got ours
taken away from us

because we were throwing
them like ninja stars.

You messed up.
You'’re a failure at life.

The engineering floor was
one of the less party places,

believe it or not.

In my class,

there were probably two
women to roughly 50 men.

She'’s so much
hotter than you.

You could have
got with Mackenzie

and grind up all on that ass.

There have been guys
in my class who have acted

very creepy towards me.

People would like,
heckle me at meetings.

There was a lot
more jokes about porn.

There was a lot more
jokes about women.

That was just more
generally accepted.

As a woman you're
just kind of like expected

to take this harassment because
this is just how the world is.

So we whittled down
the suspects to two people

based on who we both knew,

and also who would know
about this technology

and this application
of this technology.

There was
a guy freshman year

who lived with me, Mike,
who I was really close to,

but we hadn't spoken
in about a year.

We always made the
joke that like,

Mike and I like made
one full engineer

because he was like
a software guy,

I was a hardware person
and we were like,

OK, together we have
like one full brain.

He was like the
most adorable person.

You know, he made me laugh.

And he really made me feel
like at home at college.

I have a lot of fond
memories of hanging out with him.

I would like let him
lay his head in my lap

just because like we were
just very close friends.

I don'’t know...

It kind of stinks how
everything went down.

It was just a really
good friendship until it wasn't.

He basically tried to make
me his personal therapist,

and I just couldn't
handle it anymore.

Yeah, that's what
happened with me, too.

And what's weird is he
didn't do that to any of the guys.

Yeah, and I was having a lot
of issues on my own at the same time

And he, like, never wanted to
listen to what was going on with me.

He just wanted to
talk about his issues.

Yeah, he did
he did the same -

same thing to me.

OK, so I'm
on campus right now.

I guess it's been a while
since I've done a video diary.

Grad school's nuts.

Engineering school
is a rough time.

Being back on campus,

I've noticed that I'm a little

bit quieter than I used to be.

I just kind of keep to myself,

mostly because I don't
know who's seen the videos

and I don't know who could
potentially be involved in it.

You know, there's this
big secret in my life

that I don't really feel
comfortable telling people about.

I think it's kind of caused me
to become a bit more cut off

from all of my friends.

Enemy spotted.

People are just like,
"oh my God, gamer girls!"

or half the time, they expect you to
just be terrible because you're a girl.

One enemy remaining.

I would love
to become a streamer.

My dream would be to have
a bunch of other girls

that I stream with regularly.

Last
player standing.

There's some games, you literally
just open up your comms and say "Hi."

They'll be like, "Fuck
you, go kill yourself."

"Oh, is that a girl? Like,
go make me a sandwich."

Oh, I just got head shot because
I was adjusting my volume!

So one of the people we thought
could've been involved, Bobby,

has been actually like posting
images of my freshman year roommate.

There's a specific
picture he has,

I think he took it
off of her Facebook,

of like her holding a bunny.

And he just keeps posting that
picture cropped in different ways

and like he's been kind of creepy toward
a lot of girls that we don't even know.

But we've seen his
Twitter activity...

We don't really know
what's going on with him.

Bobby was displaying
some really odd behavior

at the time that Julia and I
found out we were both targeted.

Just so out of character from the
person that we knew freshman year.

He was posting really,
really long stories of like Hentai,

which is like Japanese
animated porn.

And then stories where he's just running
in the middle of the road at night

or like he'll say he
just got hit by a car.

He was posting almost
cult-like things on his social media,

making it seem like he was
in some video game world.

Some sort of like
apocalyptic god storyline.

Talking about like "you mortals,"
and like talking down to humans.

But he would mix it in with, like,
talking about golden showers...

On his regular Instagram and on
Facebook, like things his family can see.

It was
clear from his posts

that he was very much in
this like Internet culture.

If it is Bobby, the police
need to do something about it. Now.

Yeah, he's unstable.

Hey, so I guess just an update
of what's been going on recently.

I spoke to a state police
officer yesterday and...

The problem is that they're...

sorry...

The problem is, whoever did
this used a VPN for everything.

So the state cop
basically told me that

they really can't
figure out who did it-

or not that they
can't figure it out,

but that they haven't been
able to figure it out so far.

If this person really
was smart enough

to use a VPN for everything
and didn't slip up

and accidentally log in
from their own IP address,

Um...

Then I'm not I'm not going
to find out who did this,

and I'll likely never know.

Um...

And at that point, the best thing
that I could hope for is that

the videos just get taken down and
the person doesn't do this again.

You know, I would love to
have that story of like,

you figure out who did it
and you bring them to justice

and you take them to
court, and you make sure

that they never are
able to do this again.

But sometimes it just doesn't
work out like that, sometimes-

sometimes the bad
guys actually win.

Yeah.

Cool.

I'm sorry this didn't really
have a conclusion, but thanks.

So a new video
was uploaded of me.

It was really, really bad.

I'm worried.

Knowing that the perpetrator
is still active...

I'm worried that they're going
to do something more drastic.

I'm worried all the time.

I deal with a lot of
anxiety and a lot of OCD.

And the anxiety is really
bad, especially now.

With the deepfakes, I feel like
I'm not in control anymore.

And because I feel
like I'm not in control

in that one area of my life,

it's causing me to feel out of
control in other areas of my life.

I should, let me say that again,

because I think it's
important for people to know.

I have always worried about
things that don't make sense.

I feel the compulsion to like,
know how others perceive me

and I need that to
be in a positive way.

That's just how my brain works,
is like... I'm a people pleaser.

I need... I want...

I never want people to
perceive me in a way

that's not like
professional and not good.

And I feel like what these videos
did is just like, destroy that.

My OCD generally manifests
itself into, like... I...

I check things a lot.

I check... I check to see
if, like, the door is locked.

I check to see if
my car is locked.

I check that things are off...

Um...

and I - I repeatedly check them.

And it's... it's...

It's kind of like
a broken record.

It just can get like, all consuming,
where I will worry for hours.

About something I've said, or worry
for hours about if something's locked.

Or if something's going to
catch fire or something like,

you know, little things that
just will consume my mind.

So, I'm just... I'm angry.

I am done sitting
around and waiting.

You can't just do this and
then move on with your life

and prevent me from
moving on with my life.

How are you?

Am I rotated?

Yeah.

One second. Sorry.
I have the rotate lock on.

OK. Yeah, there we go.

I spoke to a
lawyer the other day

and he told me to get
screenshots of anything

that looks like evidence.

Mhm...

I've never
been on 4chan before,

so I would not know what to
look at or how to search it.

Kevin, do you remember what the
4chan archive was that we used?

It's just called
4chan search dot com.

Oh, gosh.

Oh, no. That's not
what I meant to search.

What the fuck?

So it looks like what this
thread is, is people editing...

cum onto people's faces.

That's a new one.

Oh God, I do not enjoy
searching for this kind of stuff.

Yeah...

This is not pleasant.

That's the thing with
trying to do this type of stuff,

you come across stuff
that you don't...

Wait...

I found it.

Like the picture?

Like the deepfake.

Have you ever heard Mike or
Bobby use the word chick?

No, never.

Someone asked where do you
find the footage to do these?

Then someone said, just scrape
their Facebook and Instagram,

you need like 150 images.

Yeah, I saw that.

I'll take screenshots of that.

OK.

Further down in the
thread of my deepfake

is the same like video
that like my face is on.

The name of the file
is called Sadie.

Which was one of Mike's friends.

But I don't remember...

Oh, that girl.

Yeah, I know who
you're talking about.

I don't know if I'd be able to say
definitively if it's Sadie or not.

My boyfriend just showed me
a picture of Sadie's face

for comparison, which I
thought she had lighter hair,

so that could actually be her.

There seems to be like
a request from "Krelish."

Like, this person actually
has like a username.

It says "Hi
you horny anons.

Krelish is here with a new
cumshop request thread,

in exchange I want
some of you anons

to fake girls of mine."

Wait. I know
her. Yeah, I know her.

Who?

She went to our school.

So I should probably
send her a message.

- I found
Vanessa. - Where?

- Here. Let me share.
- Where's Vanessa?

See look, this
is definitely her.

That's for sure Vanessa.

And there's Nina.

Oh, God.
Which one was she?

Wait, there's a
second one of Nina.

Further down.

Am I showing my screen?

Yeah.

Is it possible that
this Krelish is his username?

Because it seems like he's
posting most of these pictures.

There's three pictures of Nina.

This one's Nina too.

Oh, my God. What is this sound?

Oh, my God. That's
Sadie. That's Sadie.

That's... that's Mike's friend.

Where? Where?

Go - It's Krelish.

Go down, about
halfway down the page.

That's her. That
is - That's her.

- Can you like...
- And that's her again.

It's definitely
him then. There's no way.

Oh my God.

Mike was the only
person that knew Sadie,

and the other women
posted in this thread.

Mike had a pretty
similar relationship with them

as he had with me and Julia,

which is like really
being dependent on them

for emotional support.

Mike expected for me to drop
everything at a moment's notice.

If I was studying for a
test or doing an assignment,

he would still expect that
you know I would be on demand.

Maybe he felt like he was
entitled to all the attention

and all of the support
that he wanted from us.

And when we set
boundaries for ourselves,

I think that's what...
what made him vengeful.

The fact that the
group of women is this big,

it scares me, because I just
I have a gut feeling that...

we haven't even
found all of them.

Oh damn.

This is so fucking creepy.
And this was in 2018.

This is literally
a picture I took...

with Mike.

I remember like we made mimosas
for his birthday freshman year,

and like, because he wasn't doing
anything and I wanted to cheer him up,

So we, we had mimosas,
like, in my room.

And, like, that
picture's on here.

That's so fucked up.
That's, like, so fucked up.

What - I'm sorry, excuse
my language, but this was 2019,

what the fuck?

That's weird. This is...

Is that more recent
than anything else?

No. That's like a
year before anything else.

That's a year before any of
the other deepfakes were made.

This was probably like,
right after our falling out,

like, right after we
had our big fight.

Yeah.

Hold on. Just
give me one second.

I'm...

No, but... Like
it's fucked up.

Like, we shared a bathroom
Jamie, we shared a bathroom

when he was doing this.

He could have, like, I
don't know what else he has.

Like, I was taking
showers and he was like,

you know, 20 feet away.

It's fucked. It's
like, super fucked.

OK. What am I reverse
image searching?

This one is of, of me.

My face. I recognize
the picture from my...

I don't know, I think
it was on Facebook.

I think it was on
my Facebook profile.

And yeah, this one was made...

right around the time that
Mike and I had a falling out.

So, it's clear to me now that

he was doing all of this

while we were very
close friends.

So, you know, at times when
I would have considered him

one of my best friends.

Junior year, we
lived together again.

And he really started to like,

I think, lean on me
more and more and more.

I would be in my room
with my door closed.

And like, every time
I would hear like,

a very, like, faint
knocking on the door,

I knew it was him
needing to talk.

It got to the point
where it was like,

I couldn't take on
all of the things

that were going on in his life.

And that's where it started
to go downhill was when I -

I kind of put a boundary there.

One afternoon
after class,

Mike had turned to me to
say, like, can we talk later?

Something in me
just like snapped,

and I, yeah, I just
couldn't. I just lost it.

He kind of like shrunk a little
bit, he kind of got quiet.

And we like didn't
really speak after that.

That's how it was for the rest of
the time that we lived together.

I think that Mike saw any slight
as a really deep betrayal.

I don't know if he thinks
he's wrong in this.

I don't know if he feels that he
is, like, a perpetrator in this.

I believe that in his mind
he's getting back at us for,

you know, wronging him.

Just googling Krelish and
I already have stuff coming up.

Yeah, it looks like he
used to have a profile on...

something called
MrDeepFakes.com.

I searched
the username...

There's this one girl who's like
on here a lot for some reason.

I don't recognize her.

Yeah. Her name was also
in the thread with my deepfake,

I'm pretty sure...

Oh, she's an ASMR YouTuber.

She has 4.5 million
subscribers.

This looks like...

basically an instruction set
on how to create deepfakes.

It says he has like 1.6 million
views. Like, that's wild.

Like who... And it says...
But he only joined a year ago.

It says he
posted 132 videos.

That's fucking insane.

Clearly this was like what
he did in his free time.

Someone that like...

knew me on a very, very,
very personal level.

It's hard to believe
that, like, he...

he has this complete other world
that none of us knew about.

This isn't just
some sort of hobby anymore.

This is a potentially
lucrative business.

Now you can do it by handing someone
a few bucks over the Internet,

and they'll make one for you
with a video of your target,

the length of an
Instagram story.

There are 9,500 sites that specialize
in non-consensual intimate imagery.

That is an exponential growth.

This is not a phenomenon of
weirdos, perverts or oddballs.

There's simply too many of them.

It is everyday people.

It's a professor.
It's a politician.

It's the mayor of a
small town in Denmark.

I mean, these are the people who've gotten
caught in countries around the world.

The biggest deepfake porn
website that I'm aware of,

is averaging about 14
millions hits a month.

There is no woman in the world
who is safe from this technology.

How's it going?

Good, how are you?

So I got, like, a
bunch of, like, evidence,

and people that we might know.

I can, like, for sure send
it to you if you'd like.

Mhm.

But I think we're up to, like...

God, probably like...

five girls?

Five or six?

Yeah.

One... Two...

Six.

Yeah, you can send it to me.

OK.

See if I recognize anyone.

So many penises as well.

The physics of it
doesn't even make sense.

Looking forward to it.

I'll get a nice glass of wine.

Yeah, get like a...

Mike really had some
time on his hands.

Yeah. Very concerned about his
classes as I'm remembering.

Clearly he was doing
several other things.

I know.

I spoke to the police
and I gave them Mike's name...

and they were able to
speak to him on the phone.

They told me that he
never admitted doing it,

but that he also
never denied it.

The cop, he kind of like detailed
his conversation with Mike

and he said, "“Listen," you
know, "We both know that

there's really nothing else
that can be done about this,

but we need to understand this
isn't going to happen again, right?"

and Mike'’s like, "“No, it's
not going to happen again."”

They did say that he, like,
thanked them at the end of the call

for their handling of this.

And then, they told me
they had closed the case.

I mean, you
could try messaging him.

- Yeah, I could message
him... - See if he admits it.

I just like...

There'’s no like...

There'’s no... There'’s no...

There is closure but
there'’s no like...

You know, like, I don'’t know if Andrew
will kick him out of the group chat

I don'’t know if...

If he does, if that enough to
get him to like, do it again?

'cause like...

Cutting him off from his
friends might, you know...

Be enough for him to like,
hate me enough to do it again.

I don'’t know what to do...

On my freshman
moving day to CTech,

I was terrified that I wasn't
going to make any friends.

I remember the night
before, I was just like,

I'm like not - I don't think
I'm ready for tomorrow.

Um...

We got there. My parents,
like, got me to my dorm.

We, like, moved in and then,
my parents were going to leave

and I was like, I'm not
ready for them to leave.

And so they were like,
we'll go get you...

something you need
from the store.

And they did. And then they
came back and I was like not.

I'm sorry, I'm getting a...

I was not ready
for them to leave.

Wow. I didn't think
I'd cry on camera.

I was not ready
for them to leave.

And then we sat down
in our freshman hallway

with all the people who
became my best friends

and started college.

And it was really scary.

I'm sor... I really didn't
think this was going to happen!

OK. I'm good.

It's really
hard to, to think about

because, you know,
sitting in that hallway,

when I was really upset
and really just vulnerable,

was Mike and Bobby.

And they really became
my home away from home.

I trusted these people so much

and I was so vulnerable to all
of them because it was just,

You know, I think we were all
pretty vulnerable at that point.

It was our first
time away from home,

Uh...

and now it just, you
know, that like innocence

that we all had
then is just gone.

He's still friends
with all of my friends and...

it's tough because I can't
really tell them about it.

I tried telling one of them and
he didn't really believe me,

that it was him.

I'm trying
not to blame him...

because, like, he is just
trying to keep the peace.

Because the police
didn't do anything,

it feels like it's kind
of my word against his.

It just makes me nervous,
you know, slandering him.

I definitely worry that
something would happen

where people wouldn't like me,
or people would turn against me.

It feels like I've had to
deal with all of the consequences

that he should have
had to deal with.

Like I've had to leave the
friend group and he hasn't.

In a perfect world
for someone to say,

all right, we're going to
get you whatever you want

as far as an outcome for this,

what would... what would
that look like for you?

Yeah, I don't know. It's a
tough question because, like,

you know, I think that that's
kind of shifted in my mind now.

I don't really know if
there really is anything

that can be done to make
up for what happened so...

I mean, you should be really
proud of yourself, though.

I mean, you got a lot further
in the criminal justice process

than most folks that
I've worked with.

So you must have really
advocated hard for yourself.

Yeah, thank you.

Here's the
thing. I guess...

here's my question is... Um...

When talking about,
like, what he did,

am I able to say, based
on my recollection,

and on my hunch,
I think he did it.

Would that be like slanderous
towards him in any way?

Or am I am I supposed to just,
like, not talk about it at all?

OK, so I want you to know -

what you're thinking and how
you're feeling about this,

very normal.

And I get why you
want to be careful.

But you're the last person,

of everybody involved
in this so far,

you're the last person who
should be worried about

doing something wrong or
saying something wrong.

And frankly,

that is a form of
silencing you. Right?

Um...

That is never OK.

Hello.

Look up. Look to the side.

May I know your name?

I'm going to go ahead and
map out your face here.

I could figure it
out on my own, but...

I wanted to ask permission.

Hello!
Hi, how's it going?

Good. How are you?

Good.

Cool. It's so nice to
meet you, I'm

Nice to meet you.

Oh, t
hat's my real name.

You can call me
Gibi TAYLOR: I'm Taylor.

So, yeah, I guess.

I guess... I guess
you were also...

targeted by um...

this kid that targeted me, which I'm
so sorry that it happened to you.

Is it the same one?

I know, I was like, sorry to
meet under the circumstances.

Yeah...

I'm happy to give you
whatever information you want.

Yeah, sure. Send it over.

Here's the username.

And then here's his actual name.

So the account has 28
videos of you, Gibi,

and it has 536,011
views in total.

Holy shit.

I mean it is interesting
when you tell me the name

of a person, like,
instantly, I'm just like, oh.

I would love to just put his face
on the Internet and on Twitter

and just be like... hello.

I know. I feel that.

But whenever there is some sort of
stalker, creep, harassment situation...

really the best professional
advice that you can get

is to just ignore them.

And it's really frustrating

that that is our best option.

You have to ignore them and
hope that they just go away

and get bored and then go
to harass another person,

or maybe fall off a cliff
conveniently or something.

You know what I mean? It's
like I just hope they go away.

Like, that's literally
all you can do.

It is very satisfying
to have a name.

Yeah.

I know so many people personally
that this has happened to,

but it's not being talked
about for fear of safety,

for fear of embarrassment,

for fear of being misunderstood.

So I think I'm very
tired of ignoring it.

There are very,
very, very few people

out there speaking
out about this.

Because that exposes that
person to further abuse.

And so that is weaponized in
order to keep victims silent.

The primary targets
for this kind of abuse

are women that have
upset men in some way,

w hether that's by being
successful, by being powerful,

by being unattainable,
by being whatever it is.

Whoever is targeted
is driven offline.

It's like the aperture
of people's lives closes.

The disciplinary effect
of those deepfakes is:

you shouldn't be successful,

you shouldn't go into journalism,
you shouldn't go into politics.

That has a massive
chilling effect.

Hi.

Today I need to talk about
something uncomfortable.

There is a lot of porn
of me on the internet.

My face has been digitally
plastered countless times

over other people's naked bodies

to create sex content
that I never consented to.

It has felt hopeless and honestly
unsafe to ever speak out.

However, I am relieved to finally be
talking about this with some support.

I was contacted by someone

who thinks she has actually
discovered the identity

of a person who has
created deepfakes of her.

But this same username also
made a ton of videos of me,

and a dozen of my friends.

I now know his name,

where he lives and
where he works,

and I am so ready to
finally be able to pursue

whatever action I can

to find some
semblance of justice

on behalf of all the
people he has done this to.

I don't care if it's just one.

I want to let him
know that I know.

If that resonates with you,

I really, really would
like to hear from you.

- I
- Googled my name.

And all of a sudden
the result pops up.

And everything just caved
in really quickly around me.

Honestly, I've still not
really got much of an idea

if it's somebody who I have
been close to or am close to.

It felt like the image was
kind of like ammunition

that could be used against
me for the rest of my life.

I couldn't think. I
couldn't function.

I stopped eating for like
a year where I felt like

if I became smaller, somehow
people would notice me less.

It just became very
easy to think about

how death would be much
easier than living this hell.

I felt alone and scared.

There's always this
scary amount of backlash

and people will say
you're overreacting

or you post stuff online,
so you deserve this.

Seeing Gibi speak out,

I finally felt like
I wasn't alone.

I felt like I now had a voice.

OK. So a quick update.

I heard about a
White House meeting

that's going to be taking place,

focusing on deepfakes and
how to change the laws.

So I'm going to be giving
a deepfaked testimony.

I'll basically be
recording a short video

kind of telling my experience

and what I think needs
to happen to hopefully

prevent this from happening
to more people in the future,

that people at the
White House will view.

So I guess this is like kind of

the coolest thing that I've done

that I can't actually
tell anyone about

because no one's going
to know who I am.

So that'll be
pretty cool, I hope.

I'm a little nervous
to like film it

just because I feel like
this is like the closest

thing to actual change
that I've been able to do.

So yeah, it's a
little nerve wracking,

but definitely an
exciting step in this...

very weird journey
that I've been on.

Oh, and yeah, if I
haven't mentioned it,

I still suck at
making video diaries.

So thank God, I'm
being deepfaked.

I mean, not thank God
I'm being deepfaked,

thank God I'll be anonymous,
you know what I mean.

Hi, my name is Taylor

and I appreciate the platform

to be able to
speak to you today.

Before I begin,

I should mention that my
name is not really Taylor

and this isn't actually my face.

What I want you to
understand about deepfakes

is that there are hundreds
of thousands of women

being affected by
this right now.

You may not be able to see them,

but the impacts are very
real and very serious.

I think because he
essentially got away with this,

Mike will certainly keep doing
this to women in his life.

I think it's disgusting that he's
not going to face any repercussions.

His future female co-workers

and female friends have no
idea that he's done this.

And I think that's really dangerous
for the people around him.

Every time we see
behavior that is so egregious

and there's no accountability,
it really is a blank check

to do even more of it.

We have to create so much pain

for the Pornhubs of the world,

the Xvideos of the world,

that they will move
heaven and earth

to get this stuff
off their platforms.

We're at the very
beginning of this battle,

but we're not gonna allow the
dark recesses of the internet

to dictate our future.

I passed my thesis...

I have to fix the measurements
setup, but I passed my thesis!

I can get a master's degree now.

That's fucking dope!

And we're going to California.

I start my job.

I'm graduating in September,
getting my degree,

going to be done with school.

So excited about
that. That's dope.

It'’s dope.

I guess I just like never
thought that Silicon Valley type jobs

would ever be within my reach.

Being in a male-dominated field,

I want to be taken seriously.

I want to be known for my
technical accomplishments

and the things that I, you know,
have chosen to do with my life.

I would love to
be like a face for, like,

more women in gaming,

but the deepfake situation

has definitely caused me
to think twice about that.

There's a deer
on the boardwalk.

I don't know if you can
see that. There's...

I literally just watched a deer

hop across the bank parking lot.

It's running down the boardwalk.

Do you see it? What the heck!

Caught on candid...

It's sprinting
down the boardwalk!

It's highly likely that
there is still more stuff out there

that I haven't seen.

But then I can't let that fear
affect how I live my life.