Teen Pleads Guilty in First Australian Deepfake Pornography Case

An Australian teenager has pled guilty in what is being called a landmark case for creating and distributing deepfake pornography. William Hamish Yeates, 19, is the first individual charged under new federal laws criminalizing the manipulation of sexual images without consent—a crime that could carry a maximum sentence of seven years. The case underscores the growing misuse of artificial intelligence to target individuals, particularly women and girls, through image-based abuse. The court heard