New York seizes 12 celeb deep-fake porn sites
- On Monday, the Manhattan District Attorney seized 12 domains used for sharing deepfake videos, with around 1,200 people—overwhelmingly women—depicted in nonconsensual sexual content on the websites.
- As artificial intelligence technology improved, websites emerged designed to "undress" photos and create graphic sexual videos, with some sites claiming to be online since 2017 selling AI-generated pornography.
- District Attorney Alvin Bragg stated these "horrific violations of privacy follow victims into their careers and personal lives and take an immense toll on emotional and mental well-being." Victims included influencers, actors, athletes, musicians, and politicians.
- Ahead of the formal announcement, WIRED observed several sites replaced by notices stating "THIS DOMAIN HAS BEEN SEIZED." The seizures relied on state law against unlawful dissemination of intimate images, punishable by up to one year in jail.
- Leonie Oehmig of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue called the takedowns a "significant win in the fight against synthetic nonconsensual intimate imagery," though Bragg acknowledged many more such sites remain operating.
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Manhattan DA seizes websites using AI to make deepfake porn videos of celebs
Call them the dirty AI dozen. Twelve smutty websites containing deepfake pornographic images of celebrities made with artificial intelligence (AI) were shut down and seized through operations that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Monday. Bragg said that his office’s Cyber Crime Bureau has seized the domains of multiple sites that used AI to take...
The New York seizure represents one of the latest examples of action against online services that enable the mass distribution of such content.
The Manhattan prosecutor, Alvin Bragg, considered this to be the largest judicial seizure of domain names of sites dedicated to illegal pornography generated by IA.
According to the New York prosecutor, this is the largest judicial seizure of domain names of sites dedicated to illegal pornography generated by IA.
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