A Southport man has been jailed for multiple sex offences, including creating and sharing digitally altered indecent images of children and women – known more commonly as ‘deepfakes’.
Karl Marshall, 47, of Rufford Road, Southport, pleaded guilty to making indecent photographs/pseudo-photographs of a child, sharing a photograph or film of a person in an intimate state for the purpose of sexual gratification and voyeurism.
He was jailed for two years and two months on October 22 at Liverpool Crown Court.
A ‘deepfake’ is an image or video that has been digitally altered with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to replace the face of one person with the face of another.
In recent years, there have been examples around the world of people using the technology to add the faces of celebrities or public figures – most often women – into pornographic films.
Marshall used the faces of real women and children without …