If you thought that Vladimir Putin could not sink any lower, then think again. The Russian dictator is poised to deliver a weapon that may prove more destructive than anything the West has yet seen or feared – AI deepfake porn! Nina Jankowicz, a former executive director of the US Homeland Security Department’s disinformation task force, has warned that it could take just one deepfaked nude image to unleash chaos in Western democracies. If you’re wondering how on Earth that could possibly be, then…I don’t blame you. However, according to this lady, Russia already has a history of using AI-generated nudes to sow division and terror in the enemy ranks. Already in 2017 a fake social media message appeared purporting to come from a Ukrainian female member of parliament, promising that she would run through the streets of Kyiv naked if the army lost a key battle. Alongside the post were deepfaked images of her doing exactly that.
Speaking to the US Sun, Nina even claimed to have been the victim of repulsive deepfake porn herself.
In ‘How to be a Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back’, she opens up about her own experience with deep fake porn.
Nina told The Sun: “The deepfakes of me were created in the weeks after I resigned from government in 2022.
“I actually didn’t discover them for a while afterwards, it was a google alert that clued me into them.
“Of course it was part of a broader interference into public life and that’s why I’m continuing to speak up about it.
“It’s sick,” she said, “I don’t want to let the bad guys win”.
As you may have guessed already, Nina Jankowicz is a radical feminist, and according to her Wikipedia page, currently works for the UK-based Centre for Information Resilience (CIR), which is partly funded by grants from the British government. The project’s stated aim is to combat gendered abuse and disinformation online. She served under Joe Biden in the Homeland Security Department for less than four weeks, after its newly formed disinformation task force was scrapped in the wake of criticism from not only Republicans, but also the progressive media watchdog ‘Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting’. The left-wing anti-fascist activist Lev Golokin also “criticized Jankowicz’s previous work with the Ukrainian fact-checking organization StopFake, which he accused of running “interference for violent neo-Nazi formations“”.
