In response to the growing trend of AI deepfakes, the US government is taking steps to regulate AI misuse. President Joe Biden issued an executive order aimed at preventing generative AI from producing nonconsensual intimate imagery. Additionally, Representatives Joseph Morelle and Tom Kean reintroduced the "Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act," which seeks to make the nonconsensual sharing of digitally altered explicit images a federal crime. The bill is currently awaiting a decision from the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Key takeaways:
- Artificially generated explicit images of Taylor Swift have surfaced on social media, raising concerns about the lack of regulations around the nonconsensual creation of such content.
- The images, known as 'deepfakes', may have originated in a Telegram group where users share explicit AI-generated pictures, often using Microsoft Designer.
- Other celebrities, including TikTok star Addison Rae, have also been victims of this trend of AI deepfakes, which manipulate their faces and voices in explicit content without their consent.
- US President Joe Biden issued an executive order aimed at regulating AI and preventing it from producing nonconsensual intimate imagery, and Representatives Joseph Morelle and Tom Kean reintroduced the 'Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act', which seeks to make the nonconsensual sharing of digitally altered explicit images a federal crime.