Member

The victims, and those who feel that they may be victims but do not know about it yet, or who have been threatened to be victims, feel that they are living in a world of impunity. They feel that the perpetrators are committing these acts with no fear of sanction—or, indeed, the social consequences that should result from that. I am advised repeatedly that 98% of deepfake videos online today are pornographic and that, of those, 99% are of women or girls and have been created for misogynistic or revenge porn reasons. Despite the fact that we have criminalised the sharing of these images and that such an act attracts summary penalties under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and the amendments to it in the Online Safety Act, there has been an almost negligible number of prosecutions and even fewer convictions. I do not know how many there have been and, if I asked my noble friend the Minister how many, I do not know whether he would be able to tell me, but it is a negligible number.