I'm no fan of the way that technology is going, but the author seems to be confused.
The fact that people share these videos is rapidly becoming immaterial. Face swapping software doesn't require some sort of underground network, one person can do this for themselves without the videos ever being shared.
So whilst she may be able to avoid the harassment problem of having specific videos thrust into her face on Twitter or whatever - they'll still be out there, just behind closed doors.
Or even barely behind closed doors at all - given suitable software, it's not hard to come up with the prompt "Fred Bloggs sitting on a cucumber in stockings".
Honestly, there's so much porn being dumped on the internet every day if you'd avoid drawing attention to it and quietly torpedo it via DMCA, yours would quietly disappear. But you could also write an article about it in a major paper and ensure it never goes away, and people get pissed at you and make more.
Give it another year or two for TTS to become commodity and she'll have way worse problems (like identity theft, and bomb threats made in her voice, spoofed from her number) to worry about.
That they focus so heavily on distribution of the images e.g. "premade" deepfakes.
The issue is that it is becoming so trivial to generate imagery that no distribution is necessary, unless we consider powerful image generation tools to be akin to munitions of some sort and ban those too.
The fact that people share these videos is rapidly becoming immaterial. Face swapping software doesn't require some sort of underground network, one person can do this for themselves without the videos ever being shared.
So whilst she may be able to avoid the harassment problem of having specific videos thrust into her face on Twitter or whatever - they'll still be out there, just behind closed doors.
Or even barely behind closed doors at all - given suitable software, it's not hard to come up with the prompt "Fred Bloggs sitting on a cucumber in stockings".