Australian pleads guilty to creating deepfake porn in landmark case
Summary
An Australian teenager, William Hamish Yeates, has pleaded guilty to creating and sharing deepfake pornography, breaking a new national law. This law makes it illegal to alter sexual images without consent and can lead to up to seven years in prison.Key Facts
- William Hamish Yeates, aged 19, admitted to four offenses related to deepfake pornography.
- He is the first person charged under Australia's new law against manipulating sexual images.
- The law carries a maximum prison sentence of seven years.
- Yeates distributed altered sexual images without the victim’s consent on multiple accounts on the social media platform X.
- Some of Yeates’ original 20 charges were dropped after his guilty plea.
- Deepfake pornography mostly targets women and girls and has increased sharply online since 2019.
- Australia’s eSafety Commission is working to ban apps that digitally create fake nude images.
- Experts say deepfake porn is a growing problem linked to harassment and bullying.
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