In June of last year, Jessica Guistolise received a text message that would change her life.

While the technology consultant was dining with colleagues on a work trip in Oregon, her phone alerted her to a text from an acquaintance named Jenny, who said she had urgent information to share about her estranged husband, Ben.

After a nearly two-hour conversation with Jenny later that night, Guistolise recalled, she was dazed and in a state of panic. Jenny told her she'd found pictures on Ben's computer of more than 80 women whose social media photos were used to create deepfake pornography — videos and photos of sexual activities made using artificial intelligence to merge real photos with pornographic images. Most of the women in Ben's images lived in the Minneapolis area.

Jenny used her ph

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