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Deepfake porn - which usually combines a real person's face with a fake, sexually explicit body - is becoming increasingly prevalent.

On Tuesday, a new Channel 4 documentary, Vicky Pattison: My Deepfake Sex Tape, aims to explore the issue and its effect on women and girls.

In it, the 37-year-old former Geordie Shore star creates her own deepfake porn video and releases it on social media.

The video appears to show Vicky engaging in a sex act with a man, first in a bra, and then topless.

She acknowledges to BBC News that releasing her own video might seem "counterintuitive", but says she's trying to highlight the urgency of the issue.

Pattison says it took a long time to work up the nerve to hit "post" on X, because she knew it would be "the point of no return".

"What struck me most was how helpless I felt once it was released - it gave me a glimpse into the powerlessness victims experience," she says.

"By putting myself in this position, even in a controlled and consensual way, I wanted to bring home just how vulnerable all of us are".