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ADRIENNE ARSENAULT (CBC-TV):
A pharmacist by day and an alleged porn king by night. CBC News' visual investigations team exposes the creator behind a prominent deepfake porn site.
IDA HERSKIND (JOURNALIST AT POLITIKEN):
In the Instagram profile of the hospital, he's a good colleague, but then he has this, this dark side.
ADRIENNE ARSENAULT (CBC-TV):
Eric Szeto shows us the tools used to track down the alleged mastermind and the moment they found him.
ERIC SZETO (REPORTER):
That's it. So we get an interesting tip the other day about who's behind the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world, MrDeepFakes. For anyone who hasn't heard of this site, it's a place where you can find tens of thousands of videos. AI generated porn of celebrities, even regular people. Anyone can have their identity stolen and turned into AI porn. For a few dollars, users on the site will create custom videos of anyone, including violence scenes like these.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER:
How it looks like to see yourself naked against your wellbeing, spread all over the internet.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER 1:
I've been personally targeted by this. This is sexual violence.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER 2:
This is my face, it belongs to me.
GAIL KIM (CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER):
I do think there needs to be definite regulation and laws. It's disturbing.
ERIC SZETO (REPORTER):
People have been trying to figure out who's behind the site for years, and the tip we get point to someone we would hardly suspect. He lives an unassuming and respectable life, has a well-paying job as a hospital pharmacist in Canada, and he's a key person behind MrDeepFakes. Our visual investigations team alongwith open source investigative outlet Bellingcat and Danish outlet Tjekdet and Politiken spent months using digital...