Scarlett Johansson has claimed trying to stop her image being used in computer-generated p*rnography is a ‘lost cause’.

The 34-year-old has seen her face being superimposed into graphic s*xual videos by people who use artificial intelligence software to create disturbingly realistic p*rnography that looks like it stars her.

And while Scarlett calls the practice ‘demeaning’, she admitted there isn’t a lot she can do.

Speaking to The Washington Post, The Avengers actress said: ‘Clearly this doesn’t affect me as much because people assume it’s not actually me in a p*rno, however demeaning it is.

‘I think it’s a useless pursuit, legally, mostly because the internet is a vast wormhole of darkness that eats itself. There are far more disturbing things on the dark web than this, sadly.

‘It’s a fruitless pursuit for me but a different situation than someone who loses a job over their image being used like that.’

Scarlett added that even if you can challenge the copyright of somebody using your likeness in the US, this may not be covered by the same rules in Europe.

She said: ‘Nothing can stop someone from cutting and pasting my image or anyone else’s onto a different body and making it look as eerily realistic as desired.’

One ‘deepfake’ video that features Scarlett’s likeness has been viewed on a major p*rn site more than 1.5 million times, according to the Post.

Scarlett was one of one of 50 people targeted in a hacking in 2011, which saw her private nude pictures leaked online.

The hacker responsible was later sentenced to ten years in prison.

The Lost In Translation star previously told Howard Stern: ‘It was so devastating.

‘It was absolutely shocking and devastating at the time… It was such an invasion. I just felt like as a woman, I felt like it’s such a degrading and awful thing to have to go through that.’

SOURCE: metro.co.uk