“It’s time to give victims their day in court and the tools they need to fight back,” says Sen. Dick Durbin as the DEFIANCE Act heads to the House.

THE SENATE UNANIMOUSLY passed a bipartisan bill to provide recourse to victims of porn deepfakes — or sexually-explicit, non-consensual images created with artificial intelligence.

The legislation, called the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act — passed in Congress’ upper chamber on Tuesday.  The legislation has been led by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), as well as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in the House.

The legislation would amend the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to allow people to sue those who produce, distribute, or receive the deepfake pornography, if they “knew or recklessly disregarded” the fact that the victim did not consent to those images.

  • mecfs@lemmy.world
    71·
    3 months ago

    Because the headline is misleading. The bill was written by a bipartisan group of democrats and republicans, including AOC.

    It’s weird to call it AOC’s bill in this context.

    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
      37·
      3 months ago

      It would not be nearly the first time that Republicans shot down their own bill for no reason other than some Democrats said it was a good bill.