“You don’t need to whisper rumors anymore”: How AI sex videos are harming women

Former actress Kate Bell asked to borrow her partner’s laptop. When she opened it, she couldn’t believe what she found; countless sexualized images altered with artificial intelligence, as well as sex videos of her and two other women.

Things got worse. She found dozens more folders dedicated to friends and acquaintances that contained fake images. “Some of them are in our work world, in our friendship groups,” Bell said.

Bell never imagined that anyone she knew could create such horrific images, let alone the man she could have trusted the most. “I died, I absolutely died that day,” she said 60 minutes. “I was very afraid that I would be sharing a monitored house with someone whose personality was just…