Man created ‘deepfake’ porn of former classmates using their old photos, US prosecutor says


An investigation revealed Carey posted the ‘deepfake’ images – which show the victims’ faces on the bodies of other women engaged in sex acts – by using three different usernames from August 2019 until September 2021, the release said. — Dreamstime/TNS

A man created “deepfake” pornography using old social media photos of over a dozen women while they were in middle school and high school, a US prosecutor said.

Patrick Carey, 22, of Seaford in Long Island, New York, posted the explicit images involving the women’s faces to a pornographic website, according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office in New York.

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