Georgia Harrison fronts ITV sexual abuse documentary

Georgia Harrison has stated she continues to “actually wrestle” with how a sexually specific video of her stays available on-line.

The fact TV persona has been outspoken about her former accomplice Stephen Bear being convicted of sharing a non-public movie of them having intercourse in 2023.

She waived her proper to anonymity and Bear, 35, of Loughton in Essex, was jailed for 21 months in 2023.

The 30-year-old is fronting a two-part sequence with ITV, the place she appears into the difficulty of deepfakes and image-based sexual abuse.

Requested in regards to the largest problem in making the documentary, she stated: “I might say clearly the toughest half for me was having to see how widespread my video nonetheless is.

“I’ve lots of people messaging me on a regular basis, sending me clips of it. It is all the time one thing behind my thoughts, however having to actually face head on precisely the place it’s and what number of locations it is in was an actual wrestle for me.

“The one method for it to be unattainable for not solely my video however any sufferer of image-based sexual abuse’s video to not be on-line sooner or later is for there to be extra consciousness and for the federal government and higher-up firms throughout the web to get collectively and face it head on.

“For me, I do know it wasn’t the simplest factor to do, it was the most effective factor I can do for my future and different ladies’s future.”

In 2023, the earlier Conservative authorities handed the On-line Security Act, requiring social media firms to guard customers from dangerous content material.

However final month, the Labour authorities’s know-how secretary Peter Kyle described UK legal guidelines on web security as “very uneven” and “unsatisfactory”.

Harrison, who has appeared on The Solely Method is Essex and Love Island, additionally stated she was repeatedly contacted by moms whose youngsters have been affected by faux movies created with synthetic intelligence.

“It’s the similar feeling of humiliation, a violation of actually being de-clothed with out your consent,” she stated.

“It is unconsented image-based abuse. Simply because it is faux, does not imply it does not evoke the identical emotion throughout the sufferer it impacts.”

Harrison hopes “elevating consciousness” of those points can “hopefully” imply “change throughout the web, so sooner or later not simply me however any one who has been a sufferer of revenge porn will not must get up on daily basis questioning if it is nonetheless on the market”.

As a part of her two-part sequence, Harrison met victims, a consultant from a porn web site and journalists.

She stated: “I’ve a lot religion that ultimately we are going to dwell in a world the place unconsented imagery is much more durable to share, particularly on the conventional internet.”

Harrison has additionally spoken to MPs on the Girls and Equalities Committee and on the Labour Social gathering Convention about her expertise.

Bear was discovered responsible of voyeurism and two counts of exposing non-public sexual pictures and movies with intent to trigger misery.

He was launched in January 2024 after serving about half his sentence in custody.

A spokesperson from the Division for Science, Innovation and Expertise stated: “Sharing intimate photos on-line with out consent is a vile pattern which may inflict profound and lasting hurt to victims, significantly for ladies and ladies.

“Below the On-line Security Act it’s a prison offence to share or threaten to share intimate photos, together with deepfakes, with out consent.

“Final yr we strengthened legal guidelines to supply better protections for adults, significantly ladies.

“These measures require platforms to proactively sort out deepfake intimate picture abuse and forestall it from showing altogether.”

Georgia Harrison: Porn, Energy, Revenue airs on 18 and 19 February at 21:00 GMT on ITV2 and ITVX