Scarlett Johansson says fighting deepfake porn is 'fruitless'

Scarlett Johansson knows better than most how horrible a place the internet can be. She's been the victim of leaks before where private photos have ended up publicly available. And now she's been targeted by a new kind of harasser, ones that use artificial intelligence to create surprisingly convincing (but fake) pornographic videos of her. One such video has racked up over 1.5 million views, and she's come to the sad conclusion that trying to fight these "deepfake" videos is "fruitless" and a "lost cause."

Of course Johansson isn't the only victim of this new trend. She's just one of the highest profile. The Washington Post recently highlighted the story of a woman in her 40s who was the victim of such a fake. Why exactly she was attacked is unclear, but she felt "violated" and came to a similar conclusion as Johansson: "You want to tear everything off the Internet. But you know you can't."