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Jail time for those caught distributing deepfake porn under new Australian laws
Attorney general Mark Dreyfus to introduce legislation on Wednesday targeting use of generative AI to create non-consensual deepfake porn
The change is part of a suite of moves aimed at reducing the incidence of violence against women and addressing the role that technology, including social media, plays in spreading and normalising violent, degrading and misogynistic imagery and ideas. Australia doesn't have toolkit to detect AI-generated election misinformation, says AEC - videoOutlawing the sharing of non-consensual deepfake pornographic material was among the commitments arising from a national cabinet meeting on 1 May, at which first ministers pledged themselves to the goal of ending violence against women within a generation. On Saturday, Dreyfus said the government wanted users of technology to understand that it is not only the creation of degrading images without someone’s consent – whether depicting real people or created digitally – that causes harm but the act of sharing them.
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