AI deepfake porn bill would require big tech to police and remove images

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AI deepfake ***** bill would require big tech to police and remove images

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) addresses a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 6, 2021.

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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are scrambling to address the ***** in deepfake AI pornographic images, which have targeted everyone from celebrities to high school students.

Now, a new bill will seek to hold social media companies accountable for policing and removing

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published on their sites. The measure would criminalize publishing or threatening to publish deepfake *****.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is the bill’s main sponsor. Cruz’s office provided CNBC with exclusive details about the bill.

The Take It Down Act would also require social media platform operators to develop a process for removing the images within 48 hours of receiving a valid request from a victim. Additionally, the sites would also have to make a reasonable effort to remove any other copies of the images, including ones shared in private groups.

The task of enforcing these new rules would fall to the Federal Trade Commission, which

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Cruz’s legislation will be formally introduced on Tuesday by a bipartisan group of senators. They will be joined in the Capitol by victims of deepfake *****, including high school students.

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of nonconsensual AI generated images have impacted celebrities like

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, politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and

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whose classmates have taken images of their faces and, using apps and AI tools, created ***** or pornographic photos.

“By creating a level playing field at the federal level and putting the responsibility on websites to have in place procedures to remove these images, our bill will protect and empower all victims of this heinous ******,” Cruz said in a statement to CNBC.

Dueling Senate bills

In 2023, producers of deepfake ***** increased their output by 464% year-over-year, according to a 2023 report from

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Yet while there is wide consensus in Congress about the need to address deepfake AI ************, there is no agreement on how to do it.

Instead, there are two competing bills in the Senate.

Sen. ***** Durbin, D-Ill.,

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early this year that would allow victims of non-consensual deepfakes to sue people who had held, created, possessed or distributed the image.

Under Cruz’s bill, deepfake AI ***** is treated like extremely offensive online content, meaning social media companies would be responsible for moderating and removing the images.

When Durbin tried to get a floor vote of his bill last week, Sen. Cynthia Lummis blocked the bill, saying it was “overly broad in scope” and could “stifle ********* technological innovation.”

Durbin defended his bill, saying “there is no liability under this proposed law for tech platforms.”

Lummis is one of the original co-sponsors on Cruz’s bill, along with *********** Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Richard Blumenthal and Jacky Rosen.

The new bill also comes as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. is pushing his chamber to move on A.I. legislation. Last month, a task force on A.I.

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on key A.I. issues which included developing legislation to address the “nonconsensual distribution of intimate images and other harmful deepfakes.”

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