Doctor Strange star Xochitl Gomez has revealed the moment she found sexually explicit AI deepfakes of herself circulating online.
Speaking on The Squeeze podcast, the 19-year-old said she was “weirded out” when she saw the images on X and immediately wanted them taken down.
She explained: “It wasn’t because I felt like it was invading my privacy, more just like it wasn’t a good look for me. This has nothing to do with me. And yet it’s on here with my face.”
Gomez, who was underage when some of the content was generated, told her mother, who discovered her team had tried—and failed—to remove the images. “It freaked me out that someone thinks that’s cool,” she added.
The controversy comes amid criticism of Elon Musk’s X, where users have reported sexually explicit AI-generated images of underage women appearing via the platform’s chatbot, Grok. Other celebrities affected include Sabrina Carpenter, Sydney Sweeney, Taylor Swift, and Millie Bobby Brown.
While the UK now criminalises the creation of sexual deepfakes with up to two years in prison, there is currently no federal law protecting Americans against deepfake porn.
