From TFA (and making assumptions about the woman), I don't believe these were "deepfakes". It sounds like it was just the usual Photoshop kind of stuff. And in that regard, it's just another sad story about some people with issues.
> The videos were analyzed, and detectives were able to determine they were “deepfakes” — digitally altered but realistic-looking images — created by mapping the girls’ social media photos onto other images...
Both this article (and the Inquirer article it is based and basically plagiarizes - https://www.inquirer.com/news/bucks-county-raffaela-spone-cy...) seem to be confused about the difference between photos and videos and seem to imply that they are interchangeable. It would be interesting to read the actual affidavit and see if it contains the same confusion, or if this is something caused by the Inquirer's reporting.
Seems hard to accuse it of plagiarizing the article when it cites that article as its source three separate times, in the only three links that appear.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Close_paraphrasing
Wait until you hear about the Associated Press.
> The videos were analyzed, and detectives were able to determine they were “deepfakes” — digitally altered but realistic-looking images — created by mapping the girls’ social media photos onto other images, the Philly Inquirer reported.
"Smoking a vape pen" I don't get this one. Was it an offence to be a cheerleader and vape? Why not go all out a do a cigarette, they were already going all out with naked photos.
I'd guess some of the photos were real, but the police are calling them 'deep fakes' for privacy reasons.