According to the New Zealand Herald, she said, “For the victims, it is degrading and it is devastating,” “Even though I knew the picture wasn’t of me, it still annoyed me to have to stand in Parliament and hold it up.
“Holding that up in Parliament was absolutely terrifying, it did rattle me.”
The Christchurch mother of two also used Instagram to explain to her followers why she did it, saying she wanted to show how “real – and easy” these are to make.
“It’s not as low-level and as simple as the perpetrator thinks it is,” he said. “It’s not cheap entertainment – it’s life-damaging work.”
McClure has suggested the Deepfake Digital Harm and Exploitation Bill, a piece of legislation that will regulate the internet realm of sexually explicit deepfakes.
