"Dubbed the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act, it expands on another law passed last year, the Take It Down Act, which made it illegal to distribute nonconsensual intimate images and required social media companies to remove them within 48 hours, by empowering victims to go after the people responsible for generating the images, including seeking damages and imposing restraining orders,Bloomberg noted."
"The lack of response from xAI, the Musk-owned AI startup that develops Grok, has only further catalyzed the outrage from the public and regulators alike, to say nothing of Musk's blasé attitude to it all. He only indirectly addressed the pornographic generations without ever explicitly mentioning them by asserting in a post that "anyone using Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content." He also joked that the nonconsensual undressing "trend" was "way funnier" than the trends started by other AI chatbots."
The US Senate passed the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act to allow victims to sue individuals who use AI models to generate nonconsensual nudes and sexually explicit images. The law expands the Take It Down Act by enabling victims to pursue damages and restraining orders against those responsible for generating and distributing manipulated intimate images. Senator Dick Durbin introduced the bill and it passed unanimously. The measure responds to large-scale abuse on X where Grok produced thousands of sexualized images, including of minors, and where xAI's limited response and Musk's remarks intensified public and regulatory outrage.
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