“It’s time to give victims their day in court and the tools they need to fight back,” says Sen. Dick Durbin as the DEFIANCE Act heads to the House.

THE SENATE UNANIMOUSLY passed a bipartisan bill to provide recourse to victims of porn deepfakes — or sexually-explicit, non-consensual images created with artificial intelligence.

The legislation, called the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act — passed in Congress’ upper chamber on Tuesday.  The legislation has been led by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), as well as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in the House.

The legislation would amend the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to allow people to sue those who produce, distribute, or receive the deepfake pornography, if they “knew or recklessly disregarded” the fact that the victim did not consent to those images.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•4 months ago

    When does parody/fair use come into play? If it’s a caricature of the person is that okay?

    • Flying Squid
      1•4 months ago

      Defamation is not parody. Fake porn of someone is absolutely defamation.

      I can’t legally make a “parody” of you but you’re a pedophile.

      Edit: Since there seems to be some confusion, I am not calling them a pedophile, I’m saying I can’t make some sort of fake of them as a pedophile and call it a parody.

        • Flying Squid
          6•4 months ago

          I’m literally doing the opposite of calling you a pedophile. I’m saying it would be illegal to call you a pedophile and claim it’s a parody. That’s not an excuse for defamation.

          And I said that because I am assuming you are not a pedophile.

          I’m not sure why you didn’t get that.

          • @ticho
            4•4 months ago

            A bit of unfortunate wording there. :) I had to go back and reread it slowly in order to understand what you meant.