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Australian Teen Pleads Guilty to Creating Deepfake Pornography

4/15/2026

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William Hamish Yeates, an Australian teenager, pleaded guilty to creating deepfake pornography, the first person charged under a new national law with a seven-year maximum.
He admitted to four offenses, including distributing images of his victim without consent, and will return to court in April.
The case highlights AI-manipulated material as a threat, noting a 550% rise in explicit deepfakes since 2019 and that 98% of such content is pornographic.

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William Hamish Yeates, an Australian teenager, pleaded guilty to creating deepfake pornography, the first person charged under a new national law with a seven-year maximum.
He admitted to four offenses, including distributing images of his victim without consent, and will return to court in April.
The case highlights AI-manipulated material as a threat, noting a 550% rise in explicit deepfakes since 2019 and that 98% of such content is pornographic.