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A deepfake scandal targeting high level public servants has rocked Canberra as a legal loophole has emerged allowing perpetrators who create explicit AI-generated images of adults to escape any form of criminal charges.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal at least 16 women – some working in high level public service roles in Canberra – have been depicted in more than 100 deepfake nude images created by a 23-year-old ACT man.

Multiple victims, who reported the man to ACT Police last month and are aged in their 20s and 40s, said they had been left “sickened” and “distraught” over the incident.