Deepfakes of underage girls set off alarm bells for legal eagles
The National Association of Attorneys General, the body that all US states and territories use to collaboratively address legal issues, has urged Congress to pass legislation prohibiting the use of AI to generate child sex abuse images.
In a letter [PDF] to the leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives on Tuesday, the Attorneys General requested lawmakers appoint an expert to study how the content-making machine-learning technology can be used to exploit children, with the goal of establishing new laws, rules, or regulations to protect against AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
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Creating pornographic deepfakes depicting real people is illegal in at least some parts of the United States. Earlier this year, prosecutors in Long Island, New York, charged a man for creating and sharing sexually explicit deepfakes depicting “more than a dozen underage women,” using images he took from social media profiles. This machine-made material was shared on porno sites along with the victims’ personal information and calls for fellow perverts to harass them. The 22-year-old man was sentenced to six months in prison and given ten years’ probation with significant sex offender conditions.
However, no federal legislation prohibits making NSFW deepfakes without consent. The laws are murkier when it comes to completely fake AI-generated CSAM, in which the victims are not real people.
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