Bangladesh: Rising deep fake abuse triggers social ruin for women
Source: The Hans India
Dhaka: Bangladesh is witnessing a quiet yet devastating rise in the misuse of technology with rising incidents of women being targetted by superimposing their faces onto pornographic content.
Enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), this practice, known as 'deepfake', primarily targets women, with consequences - such as social ruin, forced withdrawal from public life, and, in the worst cases, death - borne almost entirely by the victims, a report said.
According to a report in Bangladesh's leading newspaper 'Daily Sun', the victims come from diverse walks of life, including students, activists, professionals, politicians, actresses, and anonymous private individuals.
"In one of the most devastating cases documented in Bangladesh, a woman took her own life after an AI-edited video of her was shared with her family. The perpetrator understood precisely how Bangladeshi social structures work — family honour, community judgement, and the irreversibility of digital shame — and used a fabricated video to trigger all three at once. Her death was not an accident of technology. It was the intended result of its deliberate misuse," the report detailed.
Dhaka: Bangladesh is witnessing a quiet yet devastating rise in the misuse of technology with rising incidents of women being targetted by superimposing their faces onto pornographic content.
Enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), this practice, known as 'deepfake', primarily targets women, with consequences - such as social ruin, forced withdrawal from public life, and, in the worst cases, death - borne almost entirely by the victims, a report said.
According to a report in Bangladesh's leading newspaper 'Daily Sun', the victims come from diverse walks of life, including students, activists, professionals, politicians, actresses, and anonymous private individuals.
"In one of the most devastating cases documented in Bangladesh, a woman took her own life after an AI-edited video of her was shared with her family. The perpetrator understood precisely how Bangladeshi social structures work — family honour, community judgement, and the irreversibility of digital shame — and used a fabricated video to trigger all three at once. Her death was not an accident of technology. It was the intended result of its deliberate misuse," the report detailed.