US EditionTrump to sign bill criminalizing revenge porn and explicit deepfakes
- President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan Take It Down Act on May 19, 2025, in Washington, DC, targeting non-consensual intimate imagery online.
- The law responds to rising issues of revenge porn and AI-generated deepfake pornography, with support from advocates including First Lady Melania Trump and Senator Ted Cruz.
- The legislation requires platforms to remove reported abusive content within 48 hours and imposes criminal penalties on those distributing non-consensual explicit images, both real and AI-generated.
- Victims like Sabrina Javellana report ongoing challenges, noting the law’s 48-hour window may allow content to spread, while advocates warn repeated claims increase victims’ isolation and fear.
- Although the law could improve content removal and deter offenders, critics highlight risks of overbroad language leading to censorship and uncertain overall effectiveness.
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The Daily Signal‘Revenge Porn’: Trump Signs Bill Criminalizing Online Sexual Exploitation
By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal | May 19, 2025 President Donald Trump signed legislation backed by his wife aimed at protecting young people from “revenge porn.” “Big thing, very important, so horrible it takes place,” the president said at the Monday bill-signing ceremony in the Rose Garden. “This would be the first-ever federal law to combat the distribution of explicit, imagery posted without subjects’ consent.”The House of R…
Special Column Deepfakes Are Not the Future, They Are the Present and Many Are Not Prepared
Sooner or later the deepfakes, the top level of the fake news, were going to make their triumphal entry through the big door of politics. But what are they and what do they achieve? A first approach: the systematic use of them, in image, video or audio format generated with artificial intelligence, that use a person's appearance or voice to generate a synthetic version and get him to do or say something that that person never did or said.
Civitai, Site Used to Generate AI Porn, Cut Off by Credit Card Processor
Civitai, an AI model sharing site backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that 404 Media has repeatedly shown is being used to generate nonconsensual adult content, lost access to its credit card payment processor.According to an announcement posted to Civitai on Monday, the site will “pause” credit card payments starting Friday, May 23. At that time, users will no longer be able to buy “Buzz,” the on-site currency users spend to generate images, o…
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