South Korea's women web sleuths fight AI deepfake porn

AOC floats wild theory why Mike Johnson is stonewalling 'deepfakes' bill

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) put forward a wild theory about why House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is blocking a bipartisan victims' rights act.The legislation, called the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images And Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act, improves the legal rights of victims of AI-generated "deepfakes," which can be used to put real people in sexually compromising positions they were never actually in.In Ocasio-Cortez's thinking, sh…

South Korea’s women web sleuths fight AI deepfake porn

Using the generative technology and a picture of their victim's face, harassers can fabricate invasive images portraying their targets.

South Korean web sleuths fight AI deepfake porn

SEOUL - Under banners emblazoned “Solidarity” and “We stand together with victims”, a group of South Korean women digital detectives dredges the internet for a scourge of illegal AI-enabled pornography.

South Korea's women web sleuths fight AI deepfake porn

South Korea -- home to the world's leading smartphone and memory chipmakers -- takes huge national pride in its tech prowess. But the success story has a dark side: women suffer rampant "digital sex crimes", rights groups say. Spycams film them in private while chat groups blackmail them for explicit content and share so-called "revenge porn" without consent. AI-generated deepfakes are the newest threat. Using the generative technology and a pic…