Your Body, Their Feed with Kat Tenbarge

Yeah.

So in the AI world, what are some of the stories that you're most interested in? 'Cause I, you mentioned before that you've been kind of a day one hater.

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Yes, yes.

I, like the stories that I love to do are like how is AI wreaking havoc in everyday people's lives?

Okay, so how is it?

So the first thing I got really into covering with AI was deepfakes.

Oh.

And I started with like celebrity-

Yeah

... deepfakes because this was in, I believe, like late 2023.

One of my friends sent me this ad that she had gotten on like some app, like a pop-up, and it was an AI Emma Watson deepfake, and it was advertising like a deepfake generator app.

Oh, gosh.

And it was not sexually explicit, but that was clearly the insinuation of what-

Oh my gosh

... you could create with this app.

And so I did like a big investigation into this.

I like found the app.

It had advertised like thousands of times on Instagram and Facebook, and it was using pictures of Emma Watson and like videos of Emma Watson, like face swapping her into sexually explicit videos.

And it was also doing it with like Jenna Ortega from pictures where she was like 16, 17 years old.

Oh my gosh.

How did the platforms get away with this? Is it the advertisers that they let on the platform?

Exactly.

It's insane.

Yes.