A Brazilian research centre has sounded the alarm over the growing use of artificial intelligence to generate non-consensual sexual imagery targeting women and girls. Internetlab (an independent digital-rights research organisation based in São Paulo) published a technical note in April 2026 citing data showing that 98% of all deepfake videos online are sexually explicit, with 99% of victims being women — a category of abuse that surged 464% between 2022 and 2023. The group is calling on Brazilian regulators to classify non-consensual sexual deepfakes as an "excessive risk," mandate safety-by-design standards for platforms, and introduce digital literacy curricula, warning that AI tools are increasingly intertwined with a broader pattern of gender violence that recorded its highest femicide count in a decade in 2025.