Banca de DEFESA: INGRID BORGES DE AZEVEDO

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STUDENT : INGRID BORGES DE AZEVEDO
DATE: 17/12/2025
TIME: 17:00
LOCAL: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/26435232795149?p=nAkxrJSf2oOjwdWQg7
TITLE:

Deepfakes against female candidates in elections: the use of artificial intelligence in perpetuating gender-based political violence

KEY WORDS:

Deepfakes; female candidates; elections; political gender violence; democracy

PAGES: 121
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Direito
SUMMARY:

The intense use of artificial intelligence impacts various areas, including the legal field, and may pose a new challenge for election campaigns. The use of deepfakes, which are images, videos, or audios digitally manipulated through machine learning to simulate people's speech or actions as if they were real, in politics presents a new facet of gender-based political violence that has been practiced against women for years. Although legislation has advanced in protecting women who pursue careers in politics, the use of technology to spread falsehoods about female candidates contributes to the violence they suffer in elections. Considering this problem, this article initially addresses the implications of the use of technology in politics and presents regulations around the world through a literature review. Next, it analyzes 101 rulings from the Regional Electoral Courts related to the 2024 municipal elections with the aim of investigating the targets, political parties, disseminated content, and grounds for the configuration of deepfakes. Finally, the chapter relates the content disseminated against female candidates in the elections to the recent concept of gender-based political violence, confirming the hypothesis that deepfakes also constitute gender-based political violence insofar as they offend the honor of female candidates with the aim of discrediting them, in an attempt to prove that politics is not a place for women, according to the concept of gender-based political violence by Mona Lena Krook and Juliana Restrepo Sanín. The work also uses Kimberlé Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality to analyze gender and race, proving that Black women are more oppressed by violence, as Bell Hooks also demonstrates.

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Interna - 1728968 - ENEA DE STUTZ E ALMEIDA
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Interna - 1904522 - JANAINA LIMA PENALVA DA SILVA
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