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The Senate passed a bill cracking down on sexually explicit deepfakes

Now it’s up to the House to move the DEFIANCE Act forward.

The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday letting victims of nonconsensual intimate images created by AI — or “deepfakes” — sue their creators for damages. Many people first learned about nonconsensual intimate deepfakes when sexually explicit AI-created images of Taylor Swift flooded social media earlier this year. In a speech on the Senate floor, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that sexually explicit deepfakes aren’t “just some fringe issue that happens to only a few people — it’s a widespread problem.

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