{"id":232945,"date":"2026-06-17T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/new-study-shows-1-in-7-people-have-been-victims-of-sextortion-and-ai-is-making-it-worse\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:30:16","slug":"new-study-shows-1-in-7-people-have-been-victims-of-sextortion-and-ai-is-making-it-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/new-study-shows-1-in-7-people-have-been-victims-of-sextortion-and-ai-is-making-it-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"New study shows 1 in 7 people have been victims of sextortion \u2013 and AI is making it worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/new-study-shows-1-in-7-people-have-been-victims-of-sextortion-and-ai-is-making-it-worse-284954\">New study shows 1 in 7 people have been victims of sextortion \u2013 and AI is making it worse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/new-study-shows-1-in-7-people-have-been-victims-of-sextortion-and-ai-is-making-it-worse-284954\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/new-study-shows-1-in-7-people-have-been-victims-of-sextortion-and-ai-is-making-it-worse-284954<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-17 16:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Australian eSafety Commissioner launched a campaign to raise awareness of sextortion, a form of image-based abuse where victims are threatened with sharing of intimate images to coerce them into financial or other demands. The campaign targets men and uses AI-generated videos to illustrate the issue.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Sextortion is growing globally, with 14.5% of adults in a recent survey reporting they have fallen victim to it, while 4.8% confessed to perpetrating it. Younger men, particularly those aged 18-24, are overrepresented in both categories.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Commonly used apps for initial contact by sextortionists include Tinder, Instagram, Grindr, TikTok, and Telegram, while platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, iMessage, and Snapchat are used to carry out threats.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Individuals and partners, especially former or current intimate ones, are often perpetrators, using sextortion to control or manipulate victims in personal matters, including relationship status, law enforcement orders, and child custody.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>AI technological advancements, including tools like Nudify and deepfake generators, are facilitating easier commission of sextortion by creating realistic fake images or manipulating existing media to threaten victims.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Addressing sextortion requires a multifaceted approach with responsibilities spread among technology companies, governments, educators, and support services to implement stronger detection and prevention methods, educational awareness campaigns, and accessible victim support services.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Legal frameworks like Australia\u2019s Online Safety Act with provisions like enforceable undertakings, injunctions, and civil penalties aim to tackle this issue by criminalizing the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, including AI-generated deepfakes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New study shows 1 in 7 people have been victims of sextortion \u2013 and AI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/741792\/original\/file-20260615-57-jdmb0c.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C649%2C3888%2C1944&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232947,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232945\/revisions\/232947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}