Trump Signs Bill ban “Revenge Porn” | Technology news

Legislation is criminalized without the consent of a person without the consent of a person publication of intimate images, including AI set “Deepfakes”.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has signed a legislation that banned so-called “revenge porn”, including images that were created with artificial intelligence.

The Take It Down Act signed on Monday makes it a federal crime to publish intimate pictures of a person without their consent, and obliges social media platforms to remove such images within 48 hours if they are requested by victims.

The legislation, which the US congress adopted with almost unanimous support at the beginning of this year, applies to realistic-looking AI created images that are referred to as “Deepfakes” and real photos.

“With the rise of the AI ​​image generation, countless women with deeppakes and other explicit pictures were harassed that are distributed against their will. This is … wrong … just so terribly wrong,” said Trump in a signature ceremony in the White House in Washington, DC.

“It's a very abusive situation … and today we make it completely illegal.”

First Lady Melania Trump, who campaigned for the legislation after the return of her husband to the white house, described the law as a “powerful step forward in our efforts to ensure that every American, especially young people, is better protected against the abuse of his image or identity”.

While the rare support for cross-party and the support of numerous organizations that are dedicated to combating sexual harassment and assault, the laws of digital legal groups were criticized in relation to privacy and anti-scensorship reasons.

The electronic frontier Foundation said that the provisions of the law for removing marked material from the Internet take risks for “free expression, privacy and proper procedure without solving the problem it claims”.

“Legal content – including satire, journalism and political speech – could be wrongly censored,” said the group in February.

“The close time frame of the legislation requires that apps and websites remove content within 48 hours, which means that online service providers, especially smaller ones, have to comply with so quickly in order to avoid a legal risk that they cannot verify any claims. Users.