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Portal needed for victims to report AI deepfakes, federal police union says


Parliamentary inquiry told police forced to ‘cobble together’ laws to prosecute man who allegedly spread deepfake images of women

The eSafety commissioner separately launched proceedings against the man over his failure to remove “intimate images” of several prominent Australians last year from a deepfake pornography website. “Due to limited resources and a lack of dedicated and direct relevant legislation relating to deepfake sexually explicit material, investigators were forced to ‘cobble’ together offences to prosecute,” Afpa said. Afpa proposed the AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation could assess initial reports and then share them with the relevant state or territory police force for further investigation.

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