Previously, legislation set down by the European Union in 2024 had made it so that most AI image tools had to disclose in some way that the image was artificially generated, with a number of exceptions for political and satirical uses.
These rules did little to mandate criminal consequences for people making non-consensual sexualized deepfakes of other people, often called image-based sexual abuse, leaving the door open to unscrupulous ‘nudifier’ apps.
This software can be used to create a sexualized AI-generated image of someone and has been cited in schools around the world as an increasing problem facing their female students.
On Thursday, families gathered in Pennsylvania to call for greater protections for their daughters after multiple students were victimized after deepfake images of them were shared in their school.
One mom of an affected student said: “It’s an acute event that creates trauma immediately. It’s incredibly humiliating.”
But many countries around the world, and states across the US, are now legislating to make the creation of these images entirely illegal.
Paris Hilton and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez started a campaign to criminalize deepfakes in January
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