---
title: "Study: Porn Accounts for 96 Percent of Deepfakes Online"
description: "Porn deepfakes featuring actresses and musicians from the entertainment industry account for the vast majority of the manipulated videos currently online."
date: "2019-10-07"
modified: "2019-10-07"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/porn-deepfakes-96-percent-online"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
tags:
  - "deepfakes"
  - "entertainment"
  - "pornography"
  - "the digest"
---

# Study: Porn Accounts for 96 Percent of Deepfakes Online

![Porn deepfakes featuring actresses and musicians from the entertainment industry account for the vast majority of the manipulated videos currently online.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/porn-deepfakes-96-percent-online.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Images via Pixabay/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Fake Nudes

On Monday, cybersecurity firm [Deeptrace released](<https://deeptracelabs.com/resources/>) "The State of Deepfakes," a report that takes a deep dive into the AI-doctored videos many say threaten to [destroy democracy](<https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/deep-fakes-may-destroy-democracy-can-they-be-stopped/>).

But by analyzing all 14,678 deepfakes it could find online, the company discovered that the people creating the clips seem far less concerned with [manipulating elections](<https://futurism.com/pioneer-perfect-deepfake-six-months-away>) — and really, really into the idea of [inserting actresses and musicians into porn](<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x57v9/most-deepfakes-are-porn-harassment-not-fake-news>).

## Face Swap

According to the report, 96 percent of the manipulated videos fell into the category of "non-consensual deepfake pornography" — in other words, the deepfakes' creators replaced the face of an actress in a pornographic video with that of another woman.

Usually, the targets are celebrities. The report noted that in all but 1 percent of those porn deepfakes, the woman taking the place of the original actress was a female actor or musician.

## Money Shot

The deepfake pornography videos aren't just strewn about the internet, either. The report's authors discovered a whole "established ecosystem" of sites hosting the clips — and monetizing them.

"The fact that those websites all contained advertising and there was a clear financial or business incentive for running these websites is also very important to recognize," lead author Henry Ajder [told *Fortune*](<https://fortune.com/2019/10/07/porn-to-scams-deepfakes-big-racket-unnerving-business-leaders-and-lawmakers/>), "because it shows they aren’t going away any time soon."

**READ MORE:** [Most Deepfakes Are Used for Creating Non-Consensual Porn, Not Fake News](<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x57v9/most-deepfakes-are-porn-harassment-not-fake-news>) \[*Vice*\]

**More on deepfakes:** *[Deepfake Pioneer: “Perfectly Real” Fake Vids Are Six Months Away](<https://futurism.com/pioneer-perfect-deepfake-six-months-away>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)