The Emergence of AI-Generated Deepfakes as a New Tool for Gender-Based Violence Against Women: A Brief Narrative Review of Evidence and the Implications of the Techno-Feminist Perspective

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https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.1281

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Technology facilitates crime. Perpetrators use technology to commit new crimes or old crimes in new ways. The advancement of technology has spawned several cybersexual crimes that affect women disproportionately. The emergence of deepfakes has brought a new dimension to women’s cyber sexual victimization. There is little empirical research on deepfakes and women’s sexual abuse. Therefore, for this comment piece we reviewed existing peer-reviewed articles and data from websites to show that deepfakes have become a new tool for gender-based violence against women. We use a techno-feminist perspective to argue that deepfake technology is an addition to the tools that are used to form a patriarchal-capitalist society. Like other cybercrimes, cybercrimes using deepfakes affect women disproportionately and deepfakes have become a tool to control and subjugate women. Also, we contend that techno-feminism has ignored the masculine aspects of new technologies. There is a need for more research on the role of deepfake technology in women’s sexual abuse to prevent gender-based violence against women.

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Mst. Safia Akter, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University

B.Sc. in Criminology and Police Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh.

Pavel Ahmed, Illinois State University

Graduate Student, Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA

 

 

 

 

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12-04-2025

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Akter, M. S., & Ahmed, P. (2025). The Emergence of AI-Generated Deepfakes as a New Tool for Gender-Based Violence Against Women: A Brief Narrative Review of Evidence and the Implications of the Techno-Feminist Perspective. Feminists@law, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.1281

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Vol. 13 No. 2 (2025)

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