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submitted 2 years ago by breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

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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[-] Merlin404@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago

Tragic that they were a celebrity that had to go through it for them to do something. But when children or others have it happened to them, they just shrug..

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

a rich-as-fuck celebrity, at that.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

Probably helps that she's super white too.

This has been happening to AOC constantly since before she was first sworn in and it's been crickets.

When it happens once to the media's favourite white billionaire, though? THAT'S when they start to take it seriously.

[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

To be clear, this has been happening to Swift for years. She's been very public on the problem, and pays IIRC up to a million per year for a firm to get fakes taken down.

[-] HandBreadedTools@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

"But my narrative!"

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

Okay, then why is it getting attention now though?

[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm sure it's gotten a lot easier - I wouldn't be surprised if there was even a 100x increase after all the AI image generation websites went mainstream.

[-] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

And why are republicans sponsoring a bill protecting a Democrat plant??

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