Bipartisan measure introduced in the US senate will allow victims in ‘digital forgeries’ to seek civil penalty against perpetrators

A bipartisan group of US senators introduced a bill Tuesday that would criminalize the spread of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by artificial intelligence. The measure comes in direct response to the proliferation of pornographic AI-made images of Taylor Swift on X, formerly Twitter, in recent days.

The measure would allow victims depicted in nude or sexually explicit “digital forgeries” to seek a civil penalty against “individuals who produced or possessed the forgery with intent to distribute it” or anyone who received the material knowing it was not made with consent. Dick Durbin, the US Senate majority whip, and senators Lindsey Graham, Amy Klobuchar and Josh Hawley are behind the bill, known as the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act of 2024, or the “Defiance Act.”

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  • @General_Effort
    2•10 months ago

    Only if they do it badly. The bill defines anything as a “digital forgery” that is made with “technological means”:

    to appear to a reasonable person to be indistinguishable from an authentic visual depiction of the individual

    • @[email protected]
      2•10 months ago

      Unless I am missing something the deep fakes of Taylor Swift wouldn’t actually be covered then 😄

    • @doingthestuff
      2•10 months ago

      Well then the headline/title is terrible because it specifies AI.