Cara Hunter

Northern Irish politician and advocate for understanding the harms of deepfakes and synthetic media. Hunter brought attention to the use of AI-generated intimate imagery as a tool of political harassment when she was targeted with a nonconsensual deepfake video during her 2022 election campaign, documenting the intersection of misogyny and technology in the weaponization of synthetic media.

Sources in this wiki

• How a Deepfake Almost Ruined My Political Career

Topics

• deepfakes, synthetic-media, election-integrity, online-harassment

Notes

Hunter represents a growing cohort of policymakers and public figures who have direct experience with deepfake attacks and are using that experience to advocate for policy and technical responses.