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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  • @MagicShel@programming.dev
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    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.

      • HopeOfTheGunblade
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        110 months ago

        Nah, we went and checked whether it was. After we found out it wasn’t, we haven’t gone back.

        • @MagicShel@programming.dev
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          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.