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Trump will sign the Take It Down Act criminalizing AI deepfakes today
President Donald Trump is signing the Take It Down Act into law today, making it illegal to publish AI deepfakes and other nonconsensual intimate images.
The act is a piece of bipartisan legislation that criminalizes the publication of "nonconsensual intimate visual depictions," including AI deepfakes. The issue with the law as written, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is that its takedown provision "applies to a much broader category of content...than the narrower NCII [nonconsensual intimate image] definitions found elsewhere in the bill." Given the lopsided composition of the current FTC and the Trump administration's already loose interpretation of existing laws, it's not hard to imagine how the original intentions of the Take It Down Act could be twisted.
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