Just watching a programme that was on Channel 4 earlier about deepfakes that the Online Safety Act is to make illegal:
https://www.channel4.com/tv-guide/2025-01-28
One of the perpetrators agreed to an anonymous online interview. He said that, whilst he felt it was unethical, 'it is what it is', it's making money for him and that if he didn't do it, somebody else would. This is similar to what drug dealers, people traffickers etc say.
He went on to say that, even when made illegal, he doesn't think that it will stop and that the AI is now becoming so advanced that it will soon be possible to create people participating in sex acts on video, just by using a photo of their face.
Interestingly, when they asked AI to produce a deepfake of a (consenting) man, it did it, but it produced an image with a man's legs & face, but the rest of it was of a female body, complete with large breasts!
I think that this goes to show that it has been ingrained into the AI software that.the naked images that it is asked to produce are predominantly about the female form and that it cannot accept that a deepfake image can be created without the inclusion of female genitalia.
The presenter concluded that this demonstrated that it's not about humiliating or disrespecting people, it's about doing this to women.