Australian Man Who Made Deepfake Porn of Teenage Girl Avoids Jail After Judge Finds 'No Malicious Motive'

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Incident details

Incident ID: inc_2026_10_30_1969bdcb
Date source: article_published_at_fallback
Country: Australia
Platform: Social Media
Incident type: Non Consensual Synthetic Image
Verification level: reported_but_unverified

Harm types

Non Consensual Imagery Harassment Reputational Harm

Topics

Deepfake Synthetic Image Image Manipulation Digital Identity Abuse Authenticity Harm

Summary

William Hamish Yeates used photographs of a teenage girl to create sexually explicit AI-generated images and videos between 2024 and 2025, and shared them on the social media platform X and the adult website Ero Me. The victim, now 19, discovered her Year 12 graduation photograph paired with altered sexual content bearing her name and school details.

Yeates pleaded guilty and was sentenced on 2026-10-27 to two years and three months under Australia’s federal non-consensual deepfake laws, but the judge released him on a three-year recognisance order rather than ordering immediate imprisonment. The case was reported as the first Australian prosecution under the 2024 federal law addressing non-consensual sexually explicit AI material.

Sources

Australian Man Who Made Deepfake Porn of Teenage Girl Avoids Jail After Judge Finds 'No Malicious Motive'

ibtimes.co.uk · 2026-10-30 · Primary