Deepfakes’ most vulnerable victims are not Hollywood actors. Not politicians. Not CTOs. She is an ordinary woman. This is not tech, this is abuse. AI won’t make my body yours. Protect reality, prohibit deepfakes! Those are some of the slogans I saw yesterday at Brandenburger Tor, where people came to support Collien Fernandes, who is suing her ex-husband, Christian Ulmen for spreading deepfake porn violating her rights. I am knowledgeable about deepfakes. When building in that space, people are looking for business opportunities, simply said: what product would bring money. And you know what? Protecting women from cyber crime using deepfakes was never a money niche. CTO impersonation, voice cloning in FinTech – sure. Measurable loss, big market. Use of deepfakes to hit women, who have been victims and carried all the shame, even as victims – something so structurally unsolvable, that it is not even in the zone of being considered to be solved. Germany is a paradise for perpetrators, Collien Fernandes, the victim, says. She’s right – Spain, France and the UK have a way better system in place supporting women. Germany’s reaction is predictable: Stefanie Hubig from the German SPD proposed to swiftly (lolz) introduce legislation to improve protection against digital violence. But the companies themselves, who are enabling this technology to supercharge systematic women’s abuse, now making it more and more accessible and uncontrollable, are making billions out of it. When I asked the CEO of a successful AI powered video generator about deepfakes, he told me: “We have protection in place that will not allow users to create deepfakes from public figures, like Trump and Putin.” Guess what – Putin and Trump are not most likely to be hurt from those deepfakes. Normal females, that have been vulnerable all along, will become even more vulnerable and become the next hit. 90% of deepfakes are pornographic, and close to 99% of the victims are women and young girls So I’m wondering – all the deepfake protection startups out there (I know tons, I might tag them in my next post) – ASAIK the business angle is to protect companies, which makes sense. How can we offer more protection to the most vulnerable, like the recent public deepfake porn case from Collien Fernandes?