How AI Deepfakes Have Skirted Revenge Porn Laws
The U.S. Senate passed legislation allowing victims of AI-generated deepfake sexual images to sue amid inconsistent international AI regulations and enforcement gaps.
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How AI deepfakes have skirted revenge porn laws
Federal and state governments have outlawed "revenge porn," the nonconsensual online sharing of sexual images of individuals, often by former partners. Last year, South Carolina became the 50th state to enact such a law. The recent rise of easy-to-use generative AI tools, however, has introduced a new wrinkle: What happens when those images look real but have been created by AI? What's lawful in the U.S. and who's responsible is not yet clear.
How AI deepfakes have skirted revenge porn laws — Harvard Gazette
The AI app Grok.Press Association via AP Images Science & Tech How AI deepfakes have skirted revenge porn laws Limits unclear when explicit images of individuals look real, but are digitally generated Christina Pazzanese Harvard Staff Writer January 28, 2026 8 min read Federal and state governments have outlawed “revenge porn,” the nonconsensual online sharing of sexual images of individual…
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