AI incident #1297 ·
Blogger Milagro Gramz Allegedly Promoted AI-Generated Pornographic Deepfake Targeting Megan Thee Stallion
What happened
A blogger, Milagro Gramz, was reportedly found liable for promoting and amplifying a sexually explicit AI-generated deepfake depicting rapper Megan Thee Stallion as part of an online harassment campaign linked to misinformation about her 2020 shooting. Court filings alleged the blogger encouraged followers to view the altered content and spread defamatory claims. In December 2025, a federal jury reportedly awarded damages for harassment and promotion of the deepfake.
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News reports (3)
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Milagro Gramz, Deepfake Creators
- Alleged developer
- Deepfake Technology Developers
- Alleged harmed party
- Megan Thee Stallion, Epistemic Integrity
Classification (MIT AI Risk Repository taxonomy)
- Risk domain
- Malicious Actors & Misuse
- Risk subdomain
- 4.3 Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
- Causal entity
- AI
- Intent
- Intentional
- Timing
- Post-deployment
- Harm level
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- Sectors
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- Countries
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Risk entries describing this failure mode
Entries from the MIT AI Risk Repository coded to subdomain 4.3.
- Impersonation/identity theft
"Impersonation/identity theft - Theft of an individual, group or organisation’s identity by a third-party in order to defraud, mock or otherwise harm them."
- IP/copyright loss
"IP/copyright loss - Misuse or abuse of an individual or organisation’s intellectual property, including copyright, trademarks, and patents."
- Dehumanisation/objectification
"Dehumanisation/objectification - Use or misuse of a technology system to depict and/or treat people as not human, less than human, or as objects."
- Defamation/libel/slander
"Defamation/libel/slander - Use of a technology system to create, facilitate or amplify false perception(s) about an individual, group, or organisation."
- Financial and business
"Financial and Business - Use or misuse of a technology system in a manner that damages the financial interests of an individual or group, or which causes strategic, operational, legal or financial harm to a business or...
- Cheating/plagiarism
"Cheating/plagiarism - Use of another person’s or group’s words or ideas without consent and/or acknowledgement."
- Cybersecurity
"LLMs may exacerbate cybersecurity risks in various ways (Newman, 2024). Firstly, LLMs may significantly amplify the effectiveness of deceptive operations aimed at tricking people into disclosing sensitive information or...
- Domain-Specific Misuses
"Improvements in LLMs may exert greater pressure to apply LLMs to various domains, such as health and education (Eloundou et al., 2023). Crude efforts to use LLMs in such domains, however, may incur harm and should be di...
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