AOC Touts Bill to Fight AI Deepfake Pornography

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is pushing for federal legislation that would crack down on deepfake pornography generated by AI, calling it “sexual violence,” The Hill reported.

“Since the public release of AI tools, out of all the images and video that AI has generated, over 90 to 95% of it has been nonconsensual deep fake pornography and over 90% of that is targeting women,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a YouTube video released Tuesday while touting the Defiance Act.

“This is sexual violence. As a prominent and visible female elected official, I’ve been personally targeted by this, but it’s not just prominent people in the limelight. What is actually concerning is the way that this is being used to target everyday people, and if you are a woman of any kind that wants to aspire to anything — starting a business, becoming a teacher, running for office — you are overwhelmingly facing the risk of being targeted by this kind of reputational sexual violence that is at its core exploitative.”

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