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“Non-consensual creation violates a person’s sexual autonomy and dignity. The creator decides how the person appears, talks, and acts in sexually explicit ways that deeply affects an individual’s personal integrity and dignity … Victims experience the creation of sexually explicit deepfakes as a sexual assault … Creation of sexually explicit deepfakes is experienced as a threat: the image is the threat. A digital image/video can instantly and easily be shared whether accidentally, maliciously, or through hacking … Threat of being deepfaked pervades the lives of women and girls: The easy creation and prevalence of deepfake image-based abuse material is experienced as an ever-present threat pervading women’s lives, with young women in particular expressing a palpable sense of despair at the lack of control over their identities and sexual autonomy”.