AI-Generated Porn: How Are People Handling it? A Comment on a Woman’s Experience with CNN and WIRED
Public Citizen is tracking nonconsensual deepfake legislation and shared its findings with WIRED, but they say there’s a misconception that it’s only celebrities who are affected. “It’s a lot of everyday people who are having this experience.”
A woman named Leah Feiger. So let’s start with porn, if that’s OK. Tori, you have a big article out today all about US states tackling the issue of AI-generated porn. Tell us about it. How are people handling this?
It can take a long time for federal legislation to pass through both houses of Congress before it is signed into law. State Legislatures and local politicians are capable of moving faster.
AI and Deepfakes Sway the US Election? Leah Feiger: What Have We Learned in the 21st Century?
The Defiance Act was introduced by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic congresswoman who had been a victim of nonconsensual deepfakes. The bill would give the victims of deepfake pornography the right to sue as long as they could prove that the deepfakes had been made without their consent. In June, Republican senator Ted Cruz introduced the Take It Down Act, which would require platforms to remove both revenge porn and nonconsensual deepfake porn.
Leah Feiger: This is WIRED Politics Lab, a show about how tech is changing politics. I’m Leah Feiger, the senior politics editor at WIRED. A few months ago, a lot of people were concerned about how artificial intelligence might affect the 2024 US election. AI-generated images, audio, and video had just gotten so good and was so easy to make and spread. In our project tracking the use of Artificial Intelligence in elections around the world, the year of the generative artificial intelligence election, is called 2024. Lately, it seems like some of the panic around AI has subsided, but deepfakes of Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and other politicians and their supporters are everywhere. Legislation on political deepfakes is very difficult, as we will discuss today. With the election just around the corner, what has changed, and if so how much should we worry about artificial intelligence? Joining me to talk about all of this are two of WIRED’s AI experts. We have politics reporter Vittoria Elliott—
Leah Feiger is @LeahFeiger. Vittoria Elliott is @telliotter. Will Knight is @willknight. Or you can write to us at politicslab@WIRED.com. Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.
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Leah Feiger: Hey, I’m with you, Tori. Senior writer Will Knight hails from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Will, thanks for coming on. It’s the first time you have been here.