The US Senate has passed a bill banning the creation of deep pornography of real people without their consent. The document gives victims the right to seek damages and seek a court order against further dissemination of the documents, Bloomberg reported.
The initiative is based on a rule that requires digital platforms to remove such deepfakes within 48 hours of a complaint by the person depicted in the photo. In case of infringement, victims can not only sue the authors of deepfakes, but can also seek timely prevention of their creation and distribution.
The reason for the legislature's reaction was the scandal surrounding Elon Musk's Grok chatbot, which created fake pornographic content inside the social network X (formerly Twitter). As a result, the service has been blocked in Malaysia and Indonesia, and the platform itself has limited image creation and editing functions, making the service chargeable.
In parallel, the UK communications regulator Ofcom, at the request of the government, began examining X's activities for compliance with requirements to protect users from illegal AI content.
