America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here

A instrumentality requiring societal networks to rapidly region intersexual deepfakes and different nonconsensual imagery is present afloat successful force. But experts pass the argumentation could bash small to assistance victims - and astatine worst could facilitate censorship online.

Last May, President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act, a instrumentality addressing nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII). The instrumentality instantly criminalized distributing NCII, whether successful the signifier of existent oregon AI-generated material, thing many states astatine slightest partially bash already. But its namesake takedown proviso is much sweeping. Taking effect a twelvemonth aft the law's transition - connected May 19th of 2026 - it requires connected …

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