AI Deepfake Predators Targeting America’s Youth
The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.3 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Phil is discussing how predators are using AI technology to create fake sexually explicit images of young women, men, and children, only to share them online for anyone to see. Dr. Phil will speak with Brooke, and her daughter Bekah, who at only 17 years old learned that someone had stolen photos of her off social media, and digitally altered them to create nude pornographic images of her, and post them online. Find out why Bekah has decided to speak publicly about what happened to her for the first time. Plus, Dr. Phil will speak with Anna, and her daughter Elliston, who was only 14 years old when she learned a classmate had created nude images of her and eight of her friends, and then attempted to share them with as many people as possible. Learn how Elliston, along with her mother, Anna, became instrumental in helping get the Take it Down Act recently signed into federal law – a law that protects anyone victimized by non-consensual intimate images shared online.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, I want you to imagine that you're going about your typical day. |
| 0:10.0 | Maybe you're getting ready for school or jumping in the car headed to work. |
| 0:14.0 | When you get a message that changes your life forever, a message letting you know that there is a full body nude image |
| 0:24.1 | of you circulating online or worse being shared |
| 0:28.3 | throughout your school for every classmate to see. |
| 0:33.1 | Now, of course, you immediately think, |
| 0:35.7 | well, that's impossible because you've never taken a photo |
| 0:38.7 | like that. But then you see it for yourself. The vulgar sexual image is indeed your face, |
| 0:47.8 | and even the background of the photo is familiar. And you realize I did take a photo in that pose, against that background, |
| 0:59.5 | but it has been completely changed. It's a photo you posted maybe months ago online. But from the |
| 1:08.9 | neck down, the photo has been digitally altered, your clothes stripped |
| 1:13.6 | off by a predator using AI technology to create a fake image called a deep fake, done with the sole |
| 1:23.6 | purpose to victimize and abuse you. Now, sadly, this is not an isolated incident. |
| 1:30.3 | In fact, over 2 million public high school students report they are aware of deep, fake, |
| 1:38.3 | non-consensual, intimate images depicting people and classmates at their schools. Now, my first guest, Brooke, says her 17-year-old daughter, Becca, was recently targeted |
| 1:50.0 | by a sick predator who for weeks posted dozens of fake nude and sexually explicit images |
| 1:57.0 | of her all created using AI technology. |
| 2:02.4 | So Brooke, I wish we were talking about something else. |
| 2:06.6 | I know. |
| 2:07.6 | I really do. |
| 2:08.6 | And I'm so glad for your courage and your daughter's courage |
| 2:13.6 | to come here and talk about this and out these people |
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