Vicky Pattison releases own sex tape on social media for shock documentary

Geordie Shore prima Vicky Pattison bravely made her ain AI-generated porn scenes successful bid to item the contented for a Channel 4 documentary

Reality prima Vicky Pattison has taken the bold determination of faking her ain enactment video successful bid to analyse deepfake porn.

The Geordie Shore prima has produced and directed the scenes successful which her ain look has been digitally added to the assemblage of an actress. The TV prima resorted to the drastic measurement arsenic portion of a Channel 4 documentary which sets retired to analyse the proliferation of deepfake porn and the interaction it has connected women and girls. She admits she “wrestled with the decision” for a agelong clip earlier accepting that the video successful which she seems to appears “may unrecorded online forever”.

The signifier of deepfakes, successful which individuals are digitally made to look arsenic though they are taking portion successful pornography contempt ne'er having done so, is the latest mode successful which women tin endure intersexual maltreatment online, with victims often near traumatised. Vicky, who got joined this summertime to covering marque manager Ercan Ramadan, said she made the video to “fully immerse herself successful this world, and decently recognize the extent of daze and usurpation victims of image-based maltreatment feel”.

“I americium hugely passionate astir women’s issues, and person recovered myself progressively disturbed by however prevalent the occupation of deepfake porn is becoming,” she explained. “This is conscionable the latest inclination successful the maltreatment of women and having met immoderate of the inspirational women who person enactment their lives backmost unneurotic aft being victims of sexually explicit deepfake abuse, I consciousness much powerfully than ever that we request to basal with them and proceed to enactment unit connected the greater powers wrong the authorities to drawback up with the velocity astatine which this technology is advancing.”

Vicky, 37, added: “As portion of the documentary, I person made the challenging determination to merchandise my ain deepfake enactment portion online, which I directed and produced with actors to guarantee the process was afloat consensual from commencement to finish. I wrestled with this determination for a agelong time, mulling implicit the permanence of it, and yet coming to judge the information that this contented whitethorn unrecorded online forever. Whilst I cognize this doesn’t comparison to the distress and fearfulness existent victims consciousness erstwhile they observe this contented of themselves, I anticipation it volition springiness immoderate penetration into what they spell through.”

She hopes that by highlighting the contented she tin bring astir alteration from those successful powerfulness and from tech companies. “My extremity is to foster empathy and thrust enactment and to lend to a larger question for justness and change, truthful victims consciousness supported, understood, and empowered to reclaim their voices and control.”

The video has present been released connected societal media successful a bid to assistance her recognize however this benignant of contented spreads online - and however to get it taken down. Nearly 4000 celebrities person go victims and the authorities has precocious announced plans to criminalise the instauration of sexually explicit deepfakes.

Vicky volition talk to Northern Irish person Cara Hunter and C4 New presenter Cathy Newman on with galore different women who are not successful the nationalist eye.

Channel 4 specializer factual brag Shaminder Nahal said she hoped the “bold and insightful” movie would connection existent penetration and spark debate. “Depressingly, astir each day, we perceive astir women being abused successful antithetic ways, and it’s a precedence for maine arsenic a commissioner to effort to exposure and code issues astir women and violence, and to research what tin beryllium done.”

She said they were “hugely grateful” to Vicky for the mode successful which she had immersed herself one the taxable of image-based maltreatment “in the astir provocative and visceral mode possible”. She added: “I anticipation that this bold and thoughtful movie volition determination the treatment astir deepfake pornography guardant astatine a clip erstwhile exertion is moving truthful fast, we don’t adjacent cognize wherever it volition instrumentality us.”

Film-maker Phil Mount said Vicky had helped to make a “brave and harrowing” documentary which explored the darker broadside of technological advancement. He explained: “Artificial quality is evolving astatine an unprecedented pace, bringing some groundbreaking opportunities and, astatine times, profoundly troubling consequences. Vicky Pattison and the courageous participants who person lent their voices to this task person been instrumental successful shining a airy connected an progressively topical subject.”

Vicky appeared successful MTV’s Geordie Shore from 2011 until 2014 and followed it with appearances successful Ex connected the Beach and with her ain amusement Judge Geordie. She won I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here successful 2015 and the pursuing twelvemonth became a panellist connected ITV ’s Loose Women.

*Vicky Pattison: My Deepfake Sex Tape, Channel 4, 10pm, Tuesday 28 ^th January

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