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Google bans advertisers from promoting deepfake porn services
Google’s policies already prohibited sexually explicit content.
The change, which will go into effect on May 30th, prohibits “promoting synthetic content that has been altered or generated to be sexually explicit or contain nudity,” such as websites and apps that instruct people on how to create deepfake porn. “This update is to explicitly prohibit advertisements for services that offer to create deepfake pornography or synthetic nude content,” Google spokesperson Michael Aciman tells The Verge. Last month, the House and Senate introduced the DEFIANCE Act, which would establish a process through which victims of “digital forgery” could sue people who make or distribute nonconsensual deepfakes of them.
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