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.
I’m definitely worried the copyright addicts will try to kill any form of showing images to a computer.
If they push this as ‘your daughter does Dallas’ then oh well of course everyone’s against it… but it’s a real short step from there, to networks simply not being allowed to know what politicians look like, to networks simply not being allowed to know what Superman looks like, to effectively strangling this cool new thing.