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[computer clicking]

[breathing]

[breathing]

YOUNG GIRL: Once upon a time,
the sun was shining.

And it went up into the sky.

[upbeat music playing]

TAYLOR: Math and science
make sense.

Numbers don't lie and aren't
really up for interpretation.

I come from
a long line of engineers.

Both my parents are engineers.

My grandfather is an engineer.
My cousin is an engineer.

My uncle is an engineer.
I'm an engineer.

My other cousin's
going for engineering,

like everyone in the family.

We're all a bunch of nerds.

[upbeat music playing]

[blocks clacking]

Yes. We have a marble,
a wedge and blocks.

TAYLOR: My mom is like the hardest
working person that I know,

so that naturally kind of led
me and my brother to believe

that like we could be really,
really hard working people.

I always just wanted
to like make her proud.

[upbeat music playing]

I'll admit it. I liked school.

I always did my homework.
I never once cheated.

I never once, like,
broke the rules

because I was too scared
what would happen if I did?

And also, just like, I didn't
want to break the rules.

MAN: Whoa! Holy smokes.

TAYLOR: I think my teachers were
concerned because

I was worried about college
when I was in seventh grade.

Like, I was like stressing out
about getting into college

when I was 12.

[upbeat music playing]

I think I'm definitely
very concerned about

how others perceive me.

[keyboard typing]

[notification dings]

[keyboard typing]

[notification dings]

[notification dings]

[computer clicks]

[keyboard typing]

[notification dings]

[heavy breathing]

[static ringing]

[overwhelming music playing]

TAYLOR: I was sitting here
with my boyfriend

and my face popped up
on the screen.

[overwhelming music playing]

And it was just shocking.
Like seeing my face.

Looking at the camera.

Basically making eye
contact with me.

I had actually been getting
messages from guys on Instagram.

[overwhelming music playing]

It clicked like, oh my God,

people were messaging me
because they found me on...

on a porn website.

I was just...

first of all shocked that, like, my name
and my face were on there.

I didn't even, like, register

that my school and my hometown

were also on there.

And then just seeing like,
oh my God,

these videos have
thousands of views on them.

TAYLOR: There were, I think, six or
seven videos on Pornhub.

And there's also
an Xhamster account.

People were commenting
like disgusting things,

and I had to read that

and know that like...
they know my face.

Like these people now know
what I look like

and they know my name
and they know where I'm from.

I was scared that these people

who thought it was actually me

would actually try to come
find me.

And excuse my language,
hearing that the next time

someone's in your hometown,

they're going to fuck you,
is just terrifying.

[overwhelming music playing]

I still just haven't
really processed it.

Uh...

It's...

It's like one of those things that's too
upsetting to think about.

So I just don't.

[concerned music playing]

TAYLOR: That night I was supposed
to hop on a Zoom call

to play golf with friends.

I just wanted to be numb,
basically.

And then I drank.

I was making jokes about
it like,

"No one thought I was going to be
a porn star,"

stupid jokes that,
just, like, help me laugh

laugh at the situation
a little bit.

I didn't want to, like,
feel any of that anymore.

I didn't want to feel scared.

I didn't want to feel like
I was going to get hurt.

[concerned music playing]

In bed that night,
I kind of just, like, broke.

I felt very like... dirty.

It was the end of the night,
and I was like...

all you have left at that point
is just, like,

you're kind of
alone with your feelings.

And then it kind of hit me
what had actually happened.

[crickets chirping]

I kept asking myself:

"Why would someone...
want to do this?"

And, "Who would do this?"

I felt like... someone's trying to...
punish me.

[dramatic music playing]

VOICES: This is synthetic.

Read my lips.

REPORTER: Deepfake videos which
are manipulated using AI

can make someone
appear as though

they're saying or doing
something that they're not.

My face is Ellen's.

My voice is Michelle's.

Ellen did not say these words.

VOICES: Frame after frame
after frame,

it synthesises a new appearance

to match the expression of
the person in the original video.

REPORTER: These manipulated images

can pose a very real
national security threat -

Fake videos could become
a real and present danger

to our democracy, Dana.

REPORTER: This is a threat
they believe could impact the election.

But the most pressing daily threat
of deepfakes isn't politics...

It's porn.

Right now, it is
a violence against women issue

and it has been since they entered
the public sphere in late 2018.

Teachers, social workers,

nurses, moms, teenagers.

Once these images are online,
they never truly go away.

They're out there and there
is no getting them back.

AUTOMATED VOICE:
May 22, 2020.

POLICE OFFICER:

TAYLOR:

[computer typing]

POLICE OFFICER:

TAYLOR:

POLICE OFFICER:

[bleep]

JAMIE:

POLICE OFFICER:

JAMIE:

[phone hangs up]

[ambient music playing]

TAYLOR: In those first couple of days,
I was very paranoid.

It was just constant worrying
about, like,

are more people that
I know going to see this.

Are they going to see
this type of stuff on like,

background checks?

It kind of, like, consumed
what I did.

I was really worried
to tell my parents

because I thought that
they wouldn't really understand

what had happened, and maybe in a way
think that it was...

Um... my fault.

I was just in tears and...
just incredibly upset.

[ambient music playing]

I was just terrified that
there was someone out there

who wanted to do this to me.

I didn't know
what their motives were,

I didn't know if their intent was then
to cause me physical harm.

It was this feeling of like,
I'm not safe anywhere.

[footsteps]

TAYLOR:

JAMIE:

TAYLOR:

TAYLOR: I think it's really important
for me to stay anonymous

because I don't want this to
follow me throughout my life.

So...

my name isn't really Taylor,

and CTech isn't a real college.

All of this footage is of me,

but the face you're watching
right now isn't actually my face.

It's an actor's face
deepfaked over mine.

This is the only way I would
ever feel safe to tell my story.

[dramatic music playing]

TAYLOR: God. We're basically
playing phone tag

with the police
for a couple of weeks.

The detective that got assigned
to the case

finally called me.

and I had to explain
the entire thing again.

So they said, "Someone
put porn of you online?"

And I was like, "No, someone
put my face on porn online."

And they seemed really confused
as to why that's wrong.

The detective was saying
weird things to me, like,

"“Oh, well, I need to look
closely at these videos

to make sure that it's you."

And, "I'm really going
to have to examine this."”

He asked: "“What have you done to cause
someone to do this to you?"”

[dramatic music playing]

After a couple of weeks,

I had called him again
and he said that:

"“It's disgusting what happened,

but the person had a right
to do it."

Like, they didn't break any laws,

so they had a right to do that.

[computer beeps]

JAMIE: OK, it is now recording.

TAYLOR: All right it'’s recording.

JAMIE: Hopefully...
TAYLOR: My head'’s in the center.

[typing]

[computer clicks]

TAYLOR: Hi, Adam

ADAM: Hi, Taylor.
TAYLOR: Do you have a...

pseudonym that I should use or...

ADAM: So nice of you to ask.
No, you can just call me Adam. It's fine.

TAYLOR: I feel like
I'’m very nervous about,

talking about, like, my experience.

Because I called the state police,

and they basically told me,

you know, "We can't do
anything for you.

We're not going to do
anything for you."

ADAM: I'm not surprised, but I'm
sorry to hear that's happened.

So, there are no deepfake laws
in your state.

Um...

There are a couple
in other states,

and there'’s no federal law
as it exists today.

I trained 500 judges last year
on deepfakes,

and I would say in excess of 90% of them
had never heard of a deepfake before.

TAYLOR: Yeah.

ADAM: With respect to
non-consensual pornography laws,

deepfakes typically don't fall within
the parameters of those laws,

because it's not the victim's body.

That's why we typically look
for other ways,

false impersonation

or credible impersonation.

Now, the reality is it's very easy
to anonymize yourself online.

TAYLOR: Yeah.

And... usually the
investigations I see

where they are able to
catch somebody is they -

there's like a second where
they didn't have their VPN on.

And that is the tiny hole
in that anonymous shield

that they're able to get through it
and prove who that person is.

[dramatic music playing]

TAYLOR: I want to find out
who did this

because I want to know why.

I want to know what was going
through their head

when they decided to do this.

Clearly this person
wanted to emphasize

where I went to school.

One of my big concerns
is if they go to CTech,

because I'm going back to
start my Masters in the fall.

I don't want to be
on the same campus

as the person who did this to me

but I have no idea who they are.

[cat purring]

[whispers] Good girl.

[dramatic music playing]

OK, so I only have like
5 minutes to make this

because I have to go to work.

My boyfriend found another

video that the
person had uploaded,

so they uploaded a new video,
same profile, same shit.

Like, really?
Like you're not done yet.

You're not like,
are you not satisfied

with everything
that you've done so far?

I'm annoyed that the police
aren't taking care of this.

I'm annoyed
that I have to be the one

to find the evidence
and find, like

Like I should not be doing
their jobs for them.

So it's just.
It's just really annoying.

It's very frustrating.

[dramatic music playing]

VOICES: So often they told victims,

just turn your computer off,
ignore it, it'll go away.

Not only are these women powerless
to do anything about it,

but the law protects the websites
distributing these videos.

Tech companies,
for the last 20 years,

have had a spectacular gift
of shield from liability.

It's called Section 230 of the
Communications Decency Act.

It's the law that allows sites
to be hosted

in the United States

that absolves them
of any responsibility.

The tech industry
profits from it. They do.

They profit from
the most outrageous,

the most salacious...

This stuff is good for business.

[notification dings]

[notification dings]

[notification dings]

TAYLOR: OK so really, all I have to
say right now is holy fuck.

About 20 minutes ago
I found out that

I know the other girl
who this is happening to.

I lived with her
freshman year of college

like we used to be friends.
We know the same people.

We've pissed off,
the same people.

I just don't even know
how to feel right now. It's...

Obviously I'm pissed.
Like, I'm very angry.

I feel horrible that this is
also happening to her,

because I know
how it's affected me.

So I can only imagine
how it's also affected her.

I don't know
what to do right now.

This is crazy.

Um...

But yeah. Holy fuck.

This is -
This is really fucked up.

[phone ringing]

TAYLOR: Hey, Julia.

JULIA: Hi, what'’ up?

TAYLOR: How'’s it,
how are you doing?

JULIA: Good. How are you?

TAYLOR: I'm good. I'm good.

This is definitely a weird
situation that we're in.

JULIA: Yeah.
TAYLOR: I mean, like

I don't know what information
like you have already,

but I called the police, they
haven't really done anything,

so I'm just trying to get
as much information as I can.

JULIA: My name is Julia in this film,

but that's not my real name.

I am a student and I went
to school with Taylor.

JULIA: At first I started receiving a
bunch of Snapchat notifications

from people adding me...

And then finally I like accepted
one of the friend requests

and I was like, "Hey,
where did you add me from?"

And he was like, "“Oh, someone
posted your Snapchat on 4chan."”

TAYLOR: We couldn't find anything
on 4chan,

but I also didn't know
how 4chan works,

so I had to have my boyfriend
explain it to me.

JULIA: So 4chan is an online forum

where people
can post anonymously,

and it can be very hard
to track their identities.

Sometimes photos can be used
kind of as currency on these forums.

So on 4chan there's threads

and a really common one is to
post, like, for a specific state.

So like mine was I think under
the Connecticut one

and people were requesting
pictures of me,

like they were asking for me by name.
TAYLOR: Oh my God

JULIA: It was just like,
it's super creepy.

TAYLOR: I'm so sorry this
is happening to you.

This is horrible. I know how
I'm feeling through this.

So, like, it's just, this is...
This is fucked that someone's doing this.

JULIA: Yeah.

I'm just more mad that they,
like, put my name out there

because I think, Kevin said,
your whole name was out there too.

TAYLOR: Oh, yeah.
My name, CTech. My hometown.

Like everything.

JULIA: Yeah, my hometown
was there, too.

It's like they're
slowly doxxing us.

JULIA: A lot of people will like
doxx other people,

so they'll share like
their private information,

their address,
their credit card information,

their phone number,
locations of family members.

There is this mob mentality.

Thousands of people at one time

can just be focused on
harassing a single person.

JULIA: For me, it was probably like
Mike or Alex,

if it was someone
from our floor.

TAYLOR: Yeah, I thought...

JULIA: You had problems with Alex right?
Like serious problems?

TAYLOR: Oh, no,
I definitely had problems with Alex.

I don't know if... at the
end of, like, freshman year,

he basically just like...

went off on me and then has
been trying to contact me since.

JULIA: Well, last I heard of him,
he wasn't doing too hot.

TAYLOR: Mike was so quiet like
freshman year and not...

JULIA: Yeah well I was like friends
with him for really like,

two years and I had
no problems with him.

And then all of a sudden...

TAYLOR: I - Same thing.

JULIA: He even deleted me off
of, like, video games.

Like, off my video game,
friend list. He was just done.

TAYLOR: He like, did not...
JULIA: Why is everyone going insane?

TAYLOR: I don'’t know!
What is it about -

JULIA: That's three now.

TAYLOR: Wait, who else went insane?
Mike, Alex... Yeah, Bobby.

Holy shit, what happened
to Bobby?

I assume you've seen the things
he's saying to girls now on Twitter.

TAYLOR: Oh, my God. I opened his
Twitter when I was at work

and then I was like,
oh my God, I feel like

I shouldn't be looking at this
on like company Wi-Fi.

It's just really weird.
I don't know.

Bobby was quiet, too.
It's all the quiet ones.

Yeah. Engineering is going
to do it to you.

[energetic music playing]

MAN: What'’s good, bro?

[professor lecturing]

TAYLOR: Julia and I actually
both lived

on the engineering floor
together in college.

I lived with seven other
guys in our dorm freshman year.

We weren't like
stereotypical college kids.

You know how
on like college floors

they always have
like a bag of condoms?

Well, we got ours
taken away from us

because we were throwing
them like ninja stars.

MAN: You messed up.
You'’re a failure at life.

JULIA: The engineering floor was
one of the less party places,

believe it or not.

TAYLOR: In my class,

there were probably two women
to roughly 50 men.

MAN: She'’s so much
hotter than you.

You could have got with Mackenzie

and grind up all on that ass.

TAYLOR: There have been guys
in my class who have acted

very creepy towards me.

People would like,
heckle me at meetings.

[male voices]

TAYLOR: There was a lot more
jokes about porn.

There was a lot more jokes
about women.

That was just more
generally accepted.

[male voices yelling]

JULIA: As a woman you're just
kind of like expected

to take this harassment because
this is just how the world is.

TAYLOR: So we whittled down
the suspects to two people

based on who we both knew,

and also who would know
about this technology

and this application
of this technology.

[dramatic music playing]

TAYLOR: There was a guy
freshman year

who lived with me, Mike,
who I was really close to,

but we hadn't spoken
in about a year.

We always made the joke that like,

Mike and I like made
one full engineer

because he was
like a software guy,

I was a hardware person
and we were like,

OK, together we have like
one full brain.

TAYLOR: He was like
the most adorable person.

You know, he made me laugh.

And he really made me feel
like at home at college.

JULIA: I have a lot of fond memories
of hanging out with him.

I would like let him
lay his head in my lap

just because like we
were just very close friends.

[laughter]

I don'’t know...

It kind of stinks
how everything went down.

TAYLOR: It was just a really
good friendship until it wasn't.

He basically tried to make me
his personal therapist,

and I just couldn't
handle it anymore.

JULIA: Yeah, that's what
happened with me, too.

TAYLOR: And what's weird is he didn't
do that to any of the guys.

JULIA: Yeah, and I was having
a lot of issues on my own at the same time

And he, like, never wanted to listen to
what was going on with me.

He just wanted to talk
about his issues.

TAYLOR: Yeah, he did
he did the same -

same thing to me.

TAYLOR: OK, so I'm on campus right now.

I guess it's been a while
since I've done a video diary.

Grad school's nuts.

Engineering school
is a rough time.

[birds chirping]

TAYLOR: Being back on campus,

I've noticed that I'm a little

bit quieter than I used to be.

[footsteps on leaves]

I just kind of keep to myself,

mostly because I don't know
who's seen the videos

and I don't know who could
potentially be involved in it.

[footsteps]

You know, there's this
big secret in my life

that I don't really feel comfortable
telling people about.

I think it's kind of caused me
to become a bit more cut off

from all of my friends.

VIDEO GAME: Enemy spotted.

JULIA: People are just like,
"oh my God, gamer girls!"

or half the time, they expect you to just
be terrible because you're a girl.

VIDEO GAME: One enemy remaining.

JULIA: I would love
to become a streamer.

My dream would be to have
a bunch of other girls

that I stream with regularly.

VIDEO GAME:
Last player standing.

JULIA: There's some games, you literally
just open up your comms and say "Hi."

They'll be like, "Fuck you,
go kill yourself."

"Oh, is that a girl?
Like, go make me a sandwich."

[gun shot]

Oh, I just got head shot because
I was adjusting my volume!

So one of the people we thought
could've been involved, Bobby,

has been actually like posting images
of my freshman year roommate.

There's a specific picture he has,

I think he took it off of her Facebook,

of like her holding a bunny.

And he just keeps posting
that picture cropped in different ways

and like he's been kind of creepy toward
a lot of girls that we don't even know.

But we've seen his Twitter activity...

We don't really know
what's going on with him.

[moody music playing]

TAYLOR: Bobby was displaying
some really odd behavior

at the time that Julia and I
found out we were both targeted.

Just so out of character from
the person that we knew freshman year.

JULIA: He was posting really,
really long stories of like Hentai,

which is like
Japanese animated porn.

And then stories where he's just running
in the middle of the road at night

or like he'll say he just
got hit by a car.

TAYLOR: He was posting almost cult-like
things on his social media,

making it seem like he was
in some video game world.

JULIA: Some sort of like
apocalyptic god storyline.

Talking about like "you mortals,"
and like talking down to humans.

But he would mix it in with, like,
talking about golden showers...

On his regular Instagram and on Facebook,
like things his family can see.

TAYLOR: It was clear from his posts

that he was very much
in this like Internet culture.

[footsteps]

TAYLOR: If it is Bobby, the police need to
do something about it. Now.

JULIA: Yeah, he's unstable.

[heavy breathing]

[Taylor groans]

TAYLOR: Hey, so I guess just an update of
what's been going on recently.

I spoke to a state police
officer yesterday and...

The problem is
that they're...

...sorry...

The problem is, whoever did this
used a VPN for everything.

So the state cop
basically told me that

they really can't figure out
who did it-

or not that they
can't figure it out,

but that they haven't been
able to figure it out so far.

If this person really was
smart enough

to use a VPN for everything
and didn't slip up

and accidentally log in
from their own IP address,

Um...

Then I'm not I'm not
going to find out who did this,

and I'll likely never know.

Um...

And at that point, the best thing that
I could hope for is that

the videos just get taken down and the
person doesn't do this again.

You know, I would love to
have that story of like,

you figure out who did it and you
bring them to justice

and you take them to court,
and you make sure

that they never are able
to do this again.

But sometimes it just doesn't
work out like that, sometimes-

sometimes the bad guys
actually win.

Yeah.

Cool.

I'm sorry this didn't really
have a conclusion, but thanks.

[ambient music playing]

TAYLOR: So a new video
was uploaded of me.

It was really, really bad.

I'm worried.

Knowing that the perpetrator
is still active...

I'm worried that they're going
to do something more drastic.

I'm worried all the time.

[fire roaring]

I deal with a lot of anxiety
and a lot of OCD.

And the anxiety is really bad,
especially now.

With the deepfakes, I feel like I'm not
in control anymore.

And because I feel like
I'm not in control

in that one area of my life,

it's causing me to feel out of
control in other areas of my life.

I should, let me say that again,

because I think it's important
for people to know.

I have always worried about
things that don't make sense.

[wind gusting]

I feel the compulsion to like,
know how others perceive me

and I need that
to be in a positive way.

That's just how my brain works,
is like... I'm a people pleaser.

I need... I want...

I never want people
to perceive me in a way

that's not like professional
and not good.

And I feel like what these videos did
is just like, destroy that.

My OCD generally manifests
itself into, like... I...

I check things a lot.

I check... I check to see if,
like, the door is locked.

I check to see
if my car is locked.

I check that things are off...

Um...

and I - I repeatedly check them.

And it's... it's...

It's kind of like a broken record.

[water gushing]

[fire roaring]

[objects crashing]

It just can get like, all consuming,
where I will worry for hours.

about something I've said, or worry for
hours about if something's locked.

or if something's going to
catch fire or something like,

you know, little things that
just will consume my mind.

[objects crashing]

[ambient music playing]

So, I'm just... I'm angry.

I am done sitting around
and waiting.

You can't just do this and
then move on with your life

and prevent me from moving on
with my life.

[ambient music playing]

TAYLOR: How are you?

JULIA: Am I rotated?

TAYLOR: Yeah.

JULIA: One second. Sorry.
I have the rotate lock on.

OK. Yeah, there we go.

TAYLOR: I spoke to a lawyer
the other day

and he told me to get
screenshots of anything

that looks like evidence.

JULIA: Mhm...

TAYLOR: I've never been
on 4chan before,

so I would not know what
to look at or how to search it.

Kevin, do you remember what the
4chan archive was that we used?

JULIA: It's just called
4chan search dot com.

TAYLOR: Oh, gosh.

Oh, no. That's not
what I meant to search.

What the fuck?

So it looks like what this
thread is, is people editing...

...cum onto people's faces.

That's a new one.

TAYLOR: Oh God, I do not enjoy
searching for this kind of stuff.

JULIA: Yeah...

This is not pleasant.

TAYLOR: That's the thing with trying
to do this type of stuff,

you come across stuff
that you don't...

JULIA: Wait...

I found it.

TAYLOR: Like the picture?

JULIA: Like the deepfake.

Have you ever heard Mike
or Bobby use the word chick?

TAYLOR: No, never.

Someone asked where do you
find the footage to do these?

Then someone said, just scrape their
Facebook and Instagram,

you need like 150 images.

JULIA: Yeah, I saw that.

I'll take screenshots of that.

JULIA: OK.

Further down in the thread
of my deepfake

is the same like video
that like my face is on.

The name of the file
is called Sadie.

Which was one of Mike's friends.

But I don't remember...

TAYLOR: Oh, that girl.

Yeah, I know who
you're talking about.

I don't know if I'd be able
to say definitively if it's Sadie or not.

My boyfriend just showed me
a picture of Sadie's face

for comparison, which I
thought she had lighter hair,

so that could actually be her.

JULIA: There seems to be like
a request from "Krelish."

Like, this person actually has
like a username.

TAYLOR: It says
"Hi you horny anons.

Krelish is here with a
new cumshop request thread,

in exchange I want some of
you anons

to fake girls of mine."

TAYLOR: Wait. I know her.
Yeah, I know her.

JULIA: Who?

TAYLOR: She went to our school.

So I should probably send her a message.

JULIA: I found Vanessa.
TAYLOR: Where?

JULIA: Here. Let me share.
TAYLOR: Where's Vanessa?

JULIA: See look, this is
definitely her.

TAYLOR: That's for sure Vanessa.

JULIA: And there's Nina.

TAYLOR: Oh, God.
Which one was she?

Wait, there's a second one of Nina.

Further down.

Am I showing my screen?

TAYLOR: Yeah.

JULIA: Is it possible that this
Krelish is his username?

Because it seems like he's
posting most of these pictures.

There's three pictures of Nina.

This one's Nina too.

[computer error sound]

Oh, my God. What is this sound?

TAYLOR: Oh, my God.
That's Sadie. That's Sadie.

That's... that's Mike's friend.

JULIA: Where? Where?

TAYLOR: Go - It's Krelish.

Go down, about halfway down the page.

That's her. That is - That's her.

JULIA: Can you like...
TAYLOR: And that's her again.

JULIA: It's definitely him then.
There's no way.

TAYLOR: Oh my God.

[sighs]

[overwhelming music playing]

JULIA: Mike was the only
person that knew Sadie,

and the other women posted
in this thread.

[dramatic music playing]

TAYLOR: Mike had a pretty
similar relationship with them

as he had with me and Julia,

which is like really
being dependent on them

for emotional support.

JULIA: Mike expected for me
to drop everything at a moment's notice.

If I was studying for
a test or doing an assignment,

he would still expect that
you know I would be on demand.

Maybe he felt like he was
entitled to all the attention

and all of the support
that he wanted from us.

And when we set
boundaries for ourselves,

I think that's what...
what made him vengeful.

TAYLOR: The fact that the
group of women is this big,

it scares me, because I just
I have a gut feeling that...

we haven't even found
all of them.

JULIA: Oh damn.

This is so fucking creepy.
And this was in 2018.

This is literally a picture
I took...

...with Mike.

I remember like we made mimosas
for his birthday freshman year,

and like, because he wasn't doing
anything and I wanted to cheer him up,

So we, we had mimosas, like,
in my room.

And, like, that
picture's on here.

That's so fucked up.
That's, like, so fucked up.

TAYLOR: What - I'm sorry, excuse my
language, but this was 2019,

what the fuck?

That's weird. This is...

Is that more recent
than anything else?

TAYLOR: No. That's like a year
before anything else.

That's a year before any of the other
deepfakes were made.

TAYLOR: This was probably like,
right after our falling out,

like, right after
we had our big fight.

Yeah.

TAYLOR: Hold on. Just
give me one second.

[web cam switches off]

TAYLOR:

JAMIE:

TAYLOR:

JAMIE:

TAYLOR:

JAMIE:

TAYLOR:

JAMIE:

I'm...

No, but...
Like it's fucked up.

Like, we shared a bathroom Jamie,
we shared a bathroom

when he was doing this.

He could have, like,
I don't know what else he has.

Like, I was taking
showers and he was like,

you know, 20 feet away.

It's fucked.
It's like, super fucked.

OK. What am I
reverse image searching?

This one is of, of me.

My face. I recognize
the picture from my...

I don't know, I think
it was on Facebook.

I think it was
on my Facebook profile.

And yeah, this one was made...

...right around the time that
Mike and I had a falling out.

So, it's clear to me now that

he was doing all of this

while we were
very close friends.

So, you know, at times when
I would have considered him

one of my best friends.

[somber music playing]

TAYLOR: Junior year, we
lived together again.

And he really started to like,

I think, lean on me
more and more and more.

I would be in my room
with my door closed.

And like,
every time I would hear like,

a very, like, faint
knocking on the door,

I knew it was him needing to talk.

It got to the point
where it was like,

I couldn't take on
all of the things

that were going on in his life.

And that's where it started
to go downhill was when I -

I kind of put a boundary there.

TAYLOR: One afternoon after class,

Mike had turned to me to say,
like, can we talk later?

Something in me just like snapped,

and I, yeah, I just couldn't.
I just lost it.

He kind of like shrunk
a little bit, he kind of got quiet.

And we like didn't
really speak after that.

That's how it was for the rest of
the time that we lived together.

[somber music playing]

I think that Mike saw any slight as a
really deep betrayal.

I don't know if he thinks
he's wrong in this.

I don't know if he feels that he is, like,
a perpetrator in this.

I believe that in his mind
he's getting back at us for,

you know, wronging him.

JULIA: Just googling Krelish and
I already have stuff coming up.

TAYLOR: Yeah, it looks like
he used to have a profile on...

something called MrDeepFakes.com.

TAYLOR: I searched the username...

There's this one girl who's like
on here a lot for some reason.

I don't recognize her.

JULIA: Yeah. Her name was also
in the thread with my deepfake,

I'm pretty sure...

Oh, she's an ASMR YouTuber.

She has 4.5 million
subscribers.

TAYLOR: This looks like...

basically an instruction set
on how to create deepfakes.

It says he has like 1.6 million
views. Like, that's wild.

Like who... And it says...
But he only joined a year ago.

TAYLOR: It says he posted 132 videos.

That's fucking insane.

Clearly this was like what
he did in his free time.

Someone that like...

...knew me on a very, very,
very personal level.

It's hard to believe that, like, he...

he has this complete other world that
none of us knew about.

[intense music playing]

VOICES: This isn't just
some sort of hobby anymore.

This is a potentially
lucrative business.

Now you can do it by handing someone
a few bucks over the Internet,

and they'll make one for you
with a video of your target,

the length of an Instagram story.

There are 9,500 sites that specialize in
non-consensual intimate imagery.

That is an exponential growth.

This is not a phenomenon of
weirdos, perverts or oddballs.

There's simply too many of them.

It is everyday people.

It's a professor.
It's a politician.

It's the mayor of a small town
in Denmark.

I mean, these are the people who've gotten
caught in countries around the world.

The biggest deepfake porn
website that I'm aware of,

is averaging about
14 millions hits a month.

There is no woman in the world
who is safe from this technology.

TAYLOR: How's it going?

Good, how are you?

TAYLOR: So I got, like,
a bunch of, like, evidence,

and people that we might know.

I can, like, for sure
send it to you if you'd like.

JULIA: Mhm.

But I think we're up to, like...

God, probably like...

[hesitates] five girls?

Five or six?

JULIA: Yeah.

TAYLOR: One... Two...

Six.

Yeah, you can send it to me.

TAYLOR: OK.

See if I recognize anyone.

So many penises as well.

[laughs]

The physics of it doesn't
even make sense.

[laughing]

Looking forward to it.

[laughing]

I'll get a nice glass of wine.

TAYLOR: Yeah, get like a...

Mike really had
some time on his hands.

Yeah. Very concerned about his
classes as I'm remembering.

Clearly he was doing
several other things.

I know.

[intense music playing]

[phone buzzing]

[intense music playing]

TAYLOR: I spoke to the police
and I gave them Mike's name...

and they were able to
speak to him on the phone.

They told me that he
never admitted doing it,

but that he also never
denied it.

The cop, he kind of like detailed
his conversation with Mike

and he said, "“Listen," you know,
"We both know that

there's really nothing else
that can be done about this,

but we need to understand this
isn't going to happen again, right?"

and Mike'’s like, "“No, it's
not going to happen again."”

[intense music playing]

TAYLOR: They did say that he, like,
thanked them at the end of the call

for their handling of this.

And then, they told me
they had closed the case.

[intense music playing]

JAMIE: I mean, you could try
messaging him.

TAYLOR: Yeah, I could message him...
JAMIE: See if he admits it.

TAYLOR: I just like...

There'’s no like...

There'’s no... There'’s no...

There is closure but there'’s
no like...

You know, like, I don'’t know if Andrew
will kick him out of the group chat

I don'’t know if...

If he does, if that enough to
get him to like, do it again?

'cause like...

Cutting him off from his
friends might, you know...

Be enough for him to like,
hate me enough to do it again.

I don'’t know what to do...

TAYLOR: On my freshman
moving day to CTech,

I was terrified that I wasn't
going to make any friends.

I remember the night
before, I was just like,

I'm like not - I don't think
I'm ready for tomorrow.

Um...

We got there. My parents,
like, got me to my dorm.

We, like, moved in and then,
my parents were going to leave

and I was like, I'm not
ready for them to leave.

And so they were like,
we'll go get you...

something you need
from the store.

And they did. And then they
came back and I was like not.

I'm sorry, I'm getting a...

I was not ready
for them to leave.

Wow. I didn't think I'd cry
on camera.

I was not ready
for them to leave.

And then we sat down
in our freshman hallway

with all the people
who became my best friends

and started college.

And it was really scary.

I'm sor-- I really didn't think
this was going to happen!

[sighs]

OK. I'm good.

TAYLOR: It's really hard
to, to think about

because, you know, sitting
in that hallway,

when I was really upset
and really just vulnerable,

was Mike and Bobby.

And they really became
my home away from home.

I trusted these people so much

and I was so vulnerable to all
of them because it was just,

You know, I think we were all pretty
vulnerable at that point.

It was our first time away
from home,

Uh...

and now it just, you know,
that like innocence

that we all had then
is just gone.

[moody music playing]

[muffled male voices]

TAYLOR: He's still friends
with all of my friends and...

it's tough because I can't
really tell them about it.

I tried telling one of them
and he didn't really believe me,

that it was him.

TAYLOR: I'm trying not to blame him...

because, like, he is just
trying to keep the peace.

[muffled male voices]

Because the police
didn't do anything,

it feels like it's kind
of my word against his.

It just makes me nervous,
you know, slandering him.

I definitely worry
that something would happen

where people wouldn't like me,
or people would turn against me.

[muffled male voices]

TAYLOR: It feels like I've had to deal
with all of the consequences

that he should have had
to deal with.

Like I've had to leave the
friend group and he hasn't.

ADAM: In a perfect world
for someone to say,

all right, we're going
to get you whatever you want

as far as an outcome for this,

what would...what would
that look like for you?

Yeah, I don't know. It's a
tough question because, like,

you know, I think that that's
kind of shifted in my mind now.

I don't really know if there
really is anything

that can be done to make up
for what happened so...

I mean, you should be really
proud of yourself, though.

I mean, you got a lot further
in the criminal justice process

than most folks that
I've worked with.

So you must have really
advocated hard for yourself.

Yeah, thank you.

TAYLOR: Here's the thing. I guess...

here's my question is... Um...

When talking about, like,
what he did,

am I able to say,
based on my recollection,

and on my hunch,
I think he did it.

Would that be like slanderous towards
him in any way?

Or am I am I supposed to just, like, not
talk about it at all?

OK, so I want you to know -

what you're thinking and
how you're feeling about this,

very normal.

And I get why
you want to be careful.

But you're the last person,

of everybody involved
in this so far,

you're the last person who
should be worried about

doing something wrong
or saying something wrong.

And frankly,

that is a form of
silencing you. Right?

Um...

That is never OK.

[suspenseful music playing]

GIBI: Hello.

[tapping]

Look up. Look to the side.

[liquid sounds]

May I know your name?

[clicking]

I'm going to go ahead
and map out your face here.

[cutting]

I could figure it out on my own, but...

I wanted to ask permission.

GIBI: Hello!
TAYLOR: Hi, how's it going?

GIBI: Good. How are you?

TAYLOR: Good.

Cool. It's so nice to meet you,
I'm [bleep]

GIBI: Nice to meet you.

TAYLOR: Oh, t hat's my real name.

GIBI: You can call me Gibi
TAYLOR: I'm Taylor.

So, yeah, I guess.

I guess... I guess you were also...

targeted by um...

...this kid that targeted me, which I'm so
sorry that it happened to you.

GIBI: Is it the same one?

I know, I was like,
sorry to meet under the circumstances.

TAYLOR: Yeah...

I'm happy to give you
whatever information you want.

Yeah, sure. Send it over.

Here's the username.

And then here's his actual name.

So the account has
28 videos of you, Gibi,

and it has 536,011 views
in total.

Holy shit.

I mean it is interesting
when you tell me the name

of a person, like, instantly,
I'm just like, oh.

I would love to just put
his face on the Internet and on Twitter

and just be like... hello.

I know. I feel that.

But whenever there is some sort of
stalker, creep, harassment situation...

really the best professional
advice that you can get

is to just ignore them.

And it's really frustrating

that that is our best option.

You have to ignore them and
hope that they just go away

and get bored and then
go to harass another person,

or maybe fall off a cliff
conveniently or something.

You know what I mean?
It's like I just hope they go away.

Like, that's literally all you can do.

It is very satisfying
to have a name.

Yeah.

I know so many people personally
that this has happened to,

but it's not being talked
about for fear of safety,

for fear of embarrassment,

for fear of being misunderstood.

So I think I'm very tired
of ignoring it.

[dramatic music playing]

VOICES: There are very,
very, very few people

out there speaking out about this.

Because that exposes
that person to further abuse.

And so that is weaponized
in order to keep victims silent.

The primary targets
for this kind of abuse

are women that have
upset men in some way,

w hether that's by being successful,
by being powerful,

by being unattainable,
by being whatever it is.

Whoever is targeted
is driven offline.

It's like the aperture
of people's lives closes.

The disciplinary effect
of those deepfakes is:

you shouldn't be successful,

you shouldn't go into journalism,
you shouldn't go into politics.

That has a massive
chilling effect.

GIBI: Hi.

Today I need to talk
about something uncomfortable.

There is a lot of porn of me
on the internet.

My face has been digitally
plastered countless times

over other people's
naked bodies

to create sex content
that I never consented to.

It has felt hopeless and honestly unsafe
to ever speak out.

However, I am relieved to finally be
talking about this with some support.

I was contacted by someone

who thinks she has actually
discovered the identity

of a person who has created
deepfakes of her.

But this same username
also made a ton of videos of me,

and a dozen of my friends.

I now know his name,

where he lives
and where he works,

and I am so ready to finally
be able to pursue

whatever action I can

to find some semblance
of justice

on behalf of all the people
he has done this to.

I don't care if it's just one.

I want to let him know
that I know.

If that resonates with you,

I really, really
would like to hear from you.

[somber music playing]

FEMALE VOICES: I Googled my name.

And all of a sudden
the result pops up.

And everything just caved
in really quickly around me.

Honestly, I've still
not really got much of an idea

if it's somebody who I have
been close to or am close to.

It felt like the image
was kind of like ammunition

that could be used against me
for the rest of my life.

I couldn't think.
I couldn't function.

I stopped eating for
like a year where I felt like

if I became smaller, somehow
people would notice me less.

It just became very easy
to think about

how death would be much
easier than living this hell.

I felt alone and scared.

There's always this
scary amount of backlash

and people will say
you're overreacting

or you post stuff online,
so you deserve this.

Seeing Gibi speak out,

I finally felt like I wasn't alone.

I felt like I now had a voice.

[somber music playing]

OK. So a quick update.

I heard about
a White House meeting

that's going to be taking place,

focusing on deepfakes
and how to change the laws.

So I'm going to be giving
a deepfaked testimony.

I'll basically be
recording a short video

kind of telling my experience

and what I think needs
to happen to hopefully

prevent this from happening
to more people in the future,

that people at the White House
will view.

So I guess this is like kind of

the coolest thing that I've done

that I can't actually
tell anyone about

because no one's going
to know who I am.

So that'll be
pretty cool, I hope.

I'm a little nervous
to like film it

just because I feel like this
is like the closest

thing to actual change
that I've been able to do.

So yeah, it's
a little nerve wracking,

but definitely an exciting step in this...

very weird journey that I've been on.

Oh, and yeah,
if I haven't mentioned it,

I still suck at
making video diaries.

So thank God,
I'm being deepfaked.

I mean, not thank God
I'm being deepfaked,

thank God I'll be anonymous,
you know what I mean.

Hi, my name is Taylor

and I appreciate the platform

to be able to
speak to you today.

Before I begin,

I should mention that my name
is not really Taylor

and this isn't actually my face.

What I want you to understand
about deepfakes

is that there are hundreds
of thousands of women

being affected
by this right now.

You may not be able to see them,

but the impacts are very
real and very serious.

[suspenseful music playing]

TAYLOR: I think because he
essentially got away with this,

Mike will certainly keep doing
this to women in his life.

JULIA: I think it's disgusting that he's
not going to face any repercussions.

His future female co-workers

and female friends have no idea
that he's done this.

And I think that's really dangerous
for the people around him.

[suspenseful music playing]

VOICES: Every time we see behavior
that is so egregious

and there's no accountability,
it really is a blank check

to do even more of it.

We have to create so much pain

for the Pornhubs of the world,

the Xvideos of the world,

that they will move
heaven and earth

to get this stuff off
their platforms.

We're at the very beginning
of this battle,

but we're not gonna allow
the dark recesses of the internet

to dictate our future.

I passed my thesis...

I have to fix the measurements setup,
but I passed my thesis!

I can get a master's degree now.

That's fucking dope!

And we're going to California.

I start my job.

I'm graduating in September,
getting my degree,

going to be done with school.

So excited about that.
That's dope.

It'’s dope.

[suspenseful music playing]

TAYLOR: I guess I just like never thought
that Silicon Valley type jobs

would ever be within my reach.

Being in a male-dominated field,

I want to be
taken seriously.

I want to be known for
my technical accomplishments

and the things that I, you know, have
chosen to do with my life.

JULIA: I would love to be
like a face for, like,

more women in gaming,

but the deepfake situation

has definitely caused me
to think twice about that.

[arrow whirs]

JULIA: There's a deer on
the boardwalk.

I don't know if you
can see that. There's...

I literally just watched a deer

hop across the bank parking lot.

It's running down the boardwalk.

Do you see it? What the heck!

Caught on candid...

It's sprinting
down the boardwalk!

[suspenseful music playing]

TAYLOR: It's highly likely that there
is still more stuff out there

that I haven't seen.

But then I can't let that fear
affect how I live my life.

[distorted music playing]

[crickets chirping]