Source: Jackie Snow, Contributing Editor
Most people, when they think about AI deepfakes, think about porn. They are not wrong. What they probably do not know is the scale.
In 2023, one survey found that deepfake pornography made up 98% of all deepfake videos online. Ninety-nine percent of those depicted women. The technology that the AI industry spent years worrying might destabilize democracy has been deployed, overwhelmingly, to sexualize real women without their knowledge.
Last week, Minnesota decided to do something about it.
The state Senate voted 65-0 to ban nudification apps, the software that makes nonconsensual explicit imagery possible at scale. Not the images or the sharing of them. The apps themselves.
Congress got here first, technically. The Take It Down Act, signed by President Donald Trump last May, made it a federal crime to distribute nonconsensual intimate imagery and requires platforms to remove it within 48 hours. What it does not do is give survivors the right to sue, or touch the…
Maybe minors and teens shouldn’t be allowed to use the internet, AI should be regulated, and parents should monitor what their kids are doing on their phones and online. Let’s be honest it’s not 1984 anymore and Dr. Brown hasn’t invented a time machine. We need younger lawmakers that actually know how the internet works unlike Senator Chuck Grassley and the other fossils in Congress.
While I dont condone people doing said things, its still comical in its still fake, meanwhile one can pass around images and videos of ISIS beheading individuals and it wouldnt be illegal…..
Sorry for “perving” this discussion right here: if someone had the nerve to put my face on a clotheless 3D model….. that 3D model it’s not of me, nor does it belong to me. I would not feel the trauma that ten years of my harasser behind bars, per modern legal doctrine, is aggressively and mindlessly espoused to have help healed.
Even if I’d slap the devil out of that person’s forehead for being annoying like that, my reprimand of him or her would not extend to years or decades in prison. That’s ludacris!