Abi will fall victim to the campaign and her life will be turned upside down Long-suffering Abi Webster is to be hit with a new torment in a hard-hitting new Coronation Street storyline, as she falls victim to deepfake porn. The vulgar crime sees the false imagery of targets superimposed into sexually explicit videos using AI. Next month, a video is sent anonymously to Tyrone Dobbs , and it shows Abi seemingly in a sex video.
Actually, strategically, it made more sense to do that one first. So it’s still there, but it’s just not yet in the show.’ That’s set to change, with the dramatic storyline forming part of an intense spring on the cobbles. Sharing deepfake imagery as a base offence now carries a six-month prison term. Amendments to the online safety bill last year made it illegal to share explicit images or videos that have been digitally manipulated to look like someone else without their consent.