A young woman has told how her whole world collapsed after her best friend stole her images and shared a deepfake porn video where she was the main character.
Jodie, not her real name, was left crying on the floor of her room after she received a tip-off that explicit images of her were being used on a porn site.
The poster - who later was revealed as her BBC music prodigy pal - said these images made him 'so horny' and offered to supply more photos of Jodie if others would create more deepfakes.
The vile attack is one of a rising tide of devastating online sexual violence, with experts saying that AI software is leaving young women defenceless.
Now specialists warn that shock figures uncovered by MailOnline revealing the extent of deepfake porn across the UK are just 'the tip of the iceberg' - and many others will unknowingly be victims of the foul practice.
Children as young as 14 were found to have been targeted by the sick violation, as reports show 99.9 per cent of victims are women.
And a private members bill has been introduced in the House of Lords to criminalise the creation and solicitation of the 'degrading and depraved' AI images.
Jodie battled with the police for them to take the perverted violation seriously, who have since apologised for how they handled her case.
'There was a total lack of compassion and consideration and care throughout the whole process,' Jodie said.
'I wanted a restraining order but they said I'm not the only job they have to do. It was such a horrific experience, it has led to real trauma.'
This is the picture that helped Jodie solve who was creating deepfake porn of her - one she had taken with her best friend and not posted anywhere
Jodie tracked down who made the deepfake porn by analysing the photos the AI had used - one was a shot not shared on social media and
Bokep was with her best friend Alex Woolf.
'My whole world was crushing down on me when I realised who had done it,' Jodie said.
Woolf, who had a double first from the
University of Cambridge, was someone she 'loved and trusted, he knew everything about me, our families were intertwined'.
A BBC Young Composer of the Year winner, he had even played the piano at Jodie's grandmother's funeral, who had 'joked that he was my future husband'.
She said: 'You think people who do this are freaks and nerds but they're just people we know and live with and work with.'
Jodie had previously confronted him over 'creepy' reddit posts on an
anoymous account but Woolf just replied: 'You wish I was that obsessed with you'.
In 2021, he admitted to 15 charges of sending messages that were grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing nature over a public electronic communications network.
'I broke down crying when the police called me, it broke my heart,' she said.
'Part of me really wished that it was all a big misunderstanding and there was another reason.
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Woolf was described as a 'teddy bear' and 'everything you could want in a guy friend', often posting about women's rights on social media
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'It tore my family apart, our brothers were best friends as well.'
Her story comes as MailOnline can reveal that UK police forces hold 81 reports of deepfake porn in the last two years against people as young as 14-years-old.
And the number is far below the reality - as some police forces did not hold the data and others refused to give accurate figures, including the Met.
Professor Clare McGlynn, who specialises in the legal regulation of pornography, sexual violence and online abuse, said the police reports 'represent the tip of the iceberg'.
She says that thousands of people use the websites every day.
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