DeepfakeHigh
Dozens of Dutch Women, Including Politicians and Public Figures, Were Reportedly Targeted With AI-Manipulated Deepfake Pornography
- Occurred
- Mar 19, 2024
- Published
- Mar 2, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Dutch reporting in March 2024 identified roughly 70–80 prominent women, including politicians, presenters, athletes, celebrities, and members of the royal family, as reportedly depicted in pornographic deepfake videos made by using AI to place their faces on performers' bodies. Some videos had more than 100,000 views. Several women said they had not known the videos existed and filed or planned police reports.
Developers
- Synthetic video generation technology developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- AI face-swapping technology developers
Deployers
- Synthetic media creators
- Deepfake website operators
- Deepfake creators
Harmed parties
- Women and girls
- Women
- Victims of non-consensual deepfakes
- Victims of deepfake abuse
- Sylvana IJsselmuiden
- Simone Simons
- Sharon Dijksma
- Sandra Beckerman
- Public figures
- Privacy
- Politicians in the Netherlands
- Politicians
- Olcay Gulsen
- Noa Vahle
- Mirjam Bikker
- Leontine Ruiters
- Jennifer Hoffman
- Individuals whose likenesses were used without consent
- Hélène Hendriks
- Epistemic integrity
- Eline Vedder
- Celebrities
- Caroline van der Plas
- People depicted in non-consensual intimate imagery
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated deepfake pornography targeting 70+ women including politicians caused significant harm and police reports.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8