The Association of Consumers and Taxpayers (ACT) party member also created a digitally altered portrait of herself to highlight how crucial she thinks this is.
“This is a naked image of me, but it’s not real,” McClure said to her colleagues legislators a few weeks ago, holding up the A3 copy. I created a number of deepfakes of myself in less than five minutes.
She went on to highlight how simple it is to get this kind of technology, saying, “I found it after a quick Google search.”
“I used one of the hundreds of websites that let people upload a picture or a video of someone before ‘nudifying’ them,” the MP revealed.
Ninety percent of internet deepfake movies include women, and up to 95 percent are non-consensually produced pornography, according to the Law Association of New Zealand.
According to McClure, she made the deepfakes of herself to show how lifelike they can be and, therefore, how detrimental they may be to people’s lives.
