TAKE IT DOWN
The US Senate unanimously passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which would make non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) illegal to post without consent , including AI-generated NCII, commonly referred to as “deepfake revenge pornography”... The act , which was proposed by US Senate commerce committee ranking member Ted Cruz alongside Senator Amy Klobuchar, will place the onus of responsibility on social media giants to take down any NCII within 48 hours of a victim report. According to researcher Burris Aubrey - author of " Hell Hath No Fury like a Woman Porned: Revenge Porn and the Need for a Federal Nonconsensual Pornography Statute " -"revenge porn" is the term used to describe an intimate image or video that is initially shared within the context of a private relationship but is later publicly disclosed, usually on the Internet , without the consent of the individual featured in the explicit graphic. “Over the past several months, courageous victims of AI-deepfake ...