On Deepfake Pornography in Hong Kong

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Media contribution to a South China Morning Post article by Salomé Grouard, editor at South China Morning Post, on deepfake pornography and image-based sexual violence in Hong Kong. I contributed as a scholar of feminist media studies, critical AI studies, Japanese studies, and gendered digital violence, providing expert analysis on how non-consensual deepfake pornography converts ordinary images into sexual proxies and redistributes harm onto the person depicted. The contribution drew on my doctoral research on deepfake pornography in Japan, where I analyse how law, media, policy, and platform discourse make this harm visible while often containing it through the languages of privacy, obscenity, youth protection, technological misuse, and individual misconduct. The article situated my academic commentary alongside an interview with RainLily in Hong Kong, connecting Japanese and Hong Kong contexts through questions of consent, platform accountability, institutional response, and the legal difficulty of addressing synthetic sexual image abuse.