The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday letting victims of nonconsensual intimate images created by AI — or “deepfakes” — sue their creators for damages.
The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act (DEFIANCE) Act lets victims of sexually explicit deepfakes pursue civil remedies against those who produced or processed the image with the intent to distribute it. Victims who are identifiable in these kinds of deepfakes can receive up to $150,000 in damages…
