Man sentenced to community service for making deepfake porn of TV host Welmoed Sijtsma
NL TimesThe court in Amsterdam sentenced on Thursday a 39-year-old man from Amersfoort to a conditional community service of 180 hours for creating and sharing online a deepfake porn video of TV presenter and journalist Welmoed Sijtsma. He superimposed Sijtsma's face onto the body of a porn actress engaged in a sexual act with a man and then posted the video on a website dedicated to such content. With the help of an IT investigator, she identified K. The Public Prosecution Service demanded a 120-hour community service and a two-month conditional prison sentence. The court disagreed: deepfake images can fall under this article, "provided that the imagery in question appears so real at first glance that it is not clear that the images have been manipulated."