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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  • doctorcrimson@lemmy.world
    14·
    9 months ago

    When you steal a person’s likeness for profit or defame them, then that’s a CIVIL matter.

    This bill will make AI sexualization a CRIMINAL matter.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Where do you see that?

      The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act would add a civil right of action for intimate “digital forgeries” depicting an identifiable person without their consent, letting victims collect financial damages from anyone who “knowingly produced or possessed” the image with the intent to spread it.

      • doctorcrimson@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        Here:

        A bipartisan group of US senators introduced a bill Tuesday that would criminalize the spread of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by artificial intelligence.

        • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          That doesn’t seem to be correct. More like a typo as criminalize =/= criminal law.