It’s been a difficult week or so for Anthony Joshua since he lnocked out YouTuber Jake Paul in the boxing ring on the 19th. Not only was he involved in a fatal collision on the Nigerian roads yesterday, but a few days ago the infamous OnlyFans British celebrity Bonnie Blue posted a racy image of herself on Instagram in which she appears in bed with a smiling and bare-chested Anthony Josha. In fact, the photo was an ai-generated deepfake and Anthony Joshua is probably one of the few remaining men on the planet that Bonnie hasn’t slept with.
Creating or sharing a ‘non-consensual’ intimate AI-generated image was criminalized in the UK under the Data (Use and Access) Act earlier this year. Both offences carry a possible year in prison upon conviction. Given that it has over 33,000 likes already, the post has probably been seen by 100 or 200 thousand people in little over a week. Furthermore, the OnlyFans creator, who famously became the first woman in history to have verified sex with other 1,000 men in a day (on film, and in less than 12 hours), clearly suggests in the post that she had sex with Joshua. In her own comment on the post, Bonnie Blue wrote – “Me and @jakepaul both went 6 rounds with @anthonyjoshua Friday night and my jaws still intact”.
Comments under the post are mixed, with some suggesting that the deepfaked photo was inappropriate. More recent comments have turned very hateful, although this may be more to do with the fact that Bonnie has somehow managed to provoke even more controversy this week by insulting the flag of Indonesia. She had recently been arrested whilst visiting the strict Muslim country on suspicion of breaking their anti-pornography laws. She could have received 15 years in a hellhole prison, but instead was given a slap on the wrist – kicked out of the country and banned from re-entering for the next 10 years. Even though she’s likely broken the UK’s draconian anti-deepfake porn laws with her Instagram post, it’s unlikely – being a woman – that she will even face arrest. It isn’t so much a case of the “the rules are meant to be broken” for Bonnie Blue, but “the rules being broken means I get more followers on OnlyFans”.
