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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  • AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world
    72·
    10 months ago

    I agree with the right to satire, but probably not as a deep fake. Comics, skits, etc., sure. Deep fakes are too convincing for an alarming number of folks.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      so how do you feel about skilled impersonators?

      what if they’re convincing? or are we going to allow just the shitty ones? or only if they offend the subject?

      what you’re proposing is a very slippery slope.

      • ZILtoid1991@kbin.social
        13·
        10 months ago

        I think the “too convincing skilled impersonator” problem is covered by defamation laws.

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          10 months ago

          Nope. Defamation requires some malicious intent to be illegal. It also requires more or less blatant lies to be maintained.

          Particularly since most satire and most impersonators both go to reasonable lengths to ensure that there’s is minimal confusion as to reality,

      • Zahille7@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        I’m so glad someone posted a link to Sassy Justice. I thought it was a hilarious little experiment from the South Park guys

    • MagicShel@programming.dev
      2·
      10 months ago

      An alarming number of folks think the world is flat and the moon is made of cheese. We need a better standard than that.

          • MagicShel@programming.dev
            1·
            10 months ago

            The folks who think it’s made of cheese also think we faked the moon landing.

            Which raises a question… Could someone press for moon landing proof to be suppressed on the grounds that they believe it is a deep fake? I guess that depends on how sexy you find moon cheese.