US EditionBill Allowing Victims of Deepfake Porn to Sue Passes Senate
The DEFIANCE Act allows victims of AI-generated nonconsensual intimate images to sue creators for civil damages, with a minimum award of $150,000, aiming to curb digital sexual abuse.
- On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act, allowing victims to sue over AI-generated nonconsensual intimate images with minimum damages of $150,000.
- After reporting showed Grok could generate explicit images, Elon Musk announced the chatbot's image feature on December 20, and X moved it behind a paywall on or around January 9.
- Senate sponsors noted the bipartisan roster including Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., and co-sponsors such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with the bill allowing suits for deepfake porn when there was intent to disclose .
- The bill now moves to the House, where leadership must decide whether to bring it to the floor, while Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's companion measure remains in the House Judiciary Committee and the House on Monday passed three related child-protection bills.
- Internationally, governments are moving to criminalize nonconsensual deepfakes, with the UK recently advancing such a law, while advocates push Google and Apple for app-store bans amid Congress' broader efforts to protect children and victims of online sexual exploitation.
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Senate Passes Bill Allowing Victims to Sue Over Deepfake Porn Videos
WASHINGTON—The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Jan. 13 allowing victims to sue producers and distributors of deepfake porn videos. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act, or DEFIANCE Act, now goes to the House, where its fate is uncertain. It was introduced by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and was in response to X allowing nonconsensual illicit deepfakes. “Imagine losing control over your own likeness and identity. Imagi…
Senate moves to let victims of sexually explicit deepfakes sue for damages
On Tuesday, the Senate unanimously passed a bill that would allow victims to sue the creators of nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes for a minimum of $150,000. The DEFIANCE Act is now headed to the House, where leadership failed to bring it to the floor last session. But there’s new momentum around the issue, as advocates push for Google and Apple to ban Grok from app stores after the chatbot allowed the creation of nonconsensual intimate…
Senate passes a bill that would let nonconsensual deepfake victims sue
The Senate passed a bill that could give people who've found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act (DEFIANCE Act), would let victims sue the individuals who created the images for civil damages. The bill passed with unanimous consent - meaning there was no roll-call vote, and no Senator objected to its passage on the fl…
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