Artificial intelligence can now be used to create sexually explicit images, videos, and audio that falsely depict real people. Offenders may take photographs from social media, school websites, dating applications, workplace profiles, or community events and transform them into fabricated intimate content used to threaten, humiliate, control, exploit, or extort victims. Although the image may be synthetic, the trauma, reputational damage, safety risks, and loss of control are real.
This survivor-centered workshop examines how AI-generated intimate imagery intersects with sexual violence, grooming, stalking, coercive control, trafficking, bullying, and sextortion. Particular attention will be given to rural, coastal, resort, tourist, and border communities, where victims may be isolated from support systems, dependent on seasonal employment or housing, unfamiliar with local services, concerned about immigration consequences, or unsure which jurisdiction can help.
The presenter will teach attendees how to respond to disclosures without minimizing the harm, blaming the victim, unnecessarily reproducing exploitative content, or attempting technical authentication beyond their professional role.
The workshop will also provide practical strategies for safety assessment, trauma-informed communication, documentation, reporting, content-removal support, and coordinated referrals.
