{"id":100072,"date":"2025-10-25T07:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T07:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/100072\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T07:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T07:38:07","slug":"tiffany-salmond-shares-new-evidence-of-explicit-deepfakes-amid-online-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/100072\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiffany Salmond shares new evidence of explicit deepfakes amid online abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI stopped talking about this months ago because I\u2019d already said what I needed to. But that doesn\u2019t mean it stopped,\u201d said Salmond.<\/a><\/p>\n

Posting to social media, Salmond shared some of the explicit AI images that had been created, alongside her original photos.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe original photo published by Tiffany Salmond on her social media channels.
\nPhoto \/ Instagram\"AA deepfake image created from Tiffany Salmond’s original photo. This image was shared by Salmond on her Instagram account to educate people on how harmful deepfakes can be.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter seeing people suggest I made this whole thing up – while literally watching new deepfakes of me still being created, I realised something.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost people don\u2019t actually understand what a deepfake is, or how common they\u2019ve become. Especially when it comes to explicit ones made of real people,\u201d said Salmond.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, it left me thinking, how can we educate boys, protect girls, and prepare parents, if no one actually knows that they\u2019re up against?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t solve a problem you don\u2019t even see. So, I\u2019m going to share a few censored versions of the deepfakes that were created using my photos.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an earlier social media post, Salmond suggested a motive for the deepfakes.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t make deepfakes of women you overlook. You make them of women you can\u2019t control\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"ShaunShaun Johnson of the Warriors is interviewed by Tiffany Salmond from Fox Sports in 2023. Photo \/ Andrew Cornaga – Photosport<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Herald in May, Salmond said \u201cthese videos are created because the woman is seen as someone who owns her body, exudes confidence, and doesn\u2019t shrink herself\u201d.<\/p>\n

Among the deepfake content that has surfaced since she spoke out earlier this year was a doctored version of a photo that she\u2019d posted with a newspaper article about her condemning deepfakes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe moment I truly knew I was right, that this was always about power, was when they deepfaked that photo.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was retaliation. There was nothing sexual about that photo. But it was symbolic, and the only power move they had left,\u201d said Salmond.<\/p>\n

\"AnAn original photo that Salmond says was used to create an explicit deepfake image. Photo \/ Instagram<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s unclear where the deepfake imagery originated from, New Zealand could soon be in a position to prosecute deepfake creators. <\/a><\/p>\n

Act MP Laura McClure\u2019s<\/a> Bill to criminalise sexually explicit \u201cdeepfake\u201d images will be read in parliament.<\/p>\n

If passed, the Deepfake Digital Harm and Exploitation Bill will amend existing laws to expand the definition of an \u201cintimate visual recording\u201d.<\/p>\n

It will widen what a \u201crecording\u201d is to include images or videos that are created, synthesised or altered to depict a person\u2019s likeness in intimate contexts without their consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI stopped talking about this months ago because I\u2019d already said what I needed to. But that doesn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1443,1903,534,682,9539,73196,43361,49738,73195,359,194,1073,117,111,43,139,69,1118,1642,41167,13910,73194,180,1072,44970,213,19554,1458,58274,73197,102,33398],"class_list":["post-100072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-about","tag-abuse","tag-amid","tag-being","tag-content","tag-deepfake","tag-deepfakes","tag-evidence","tag-explicit","tag-internet","tag-kiwi","tag-media","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-online","tag-presenter","tag-previously","tag-salmond","tag-shares","tag-social","tag-spoke","tag-sports","tag-taken","tag-targeted","tag-tiffany","tag-trolls","tag-with","tag-worsened"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}