DeepFake Porn: A Day for Artificial Intelligence in the Porn Era and a Day for Local Government and Local Government

As national legislation on deepfake pornography crawls its way through Congress, states across the country are trying to take matters into their own hands. Thirty-nine states have introduced a hodgepodge of laws designed to deter the creation of nonconsensual deepfakes and punish those who make and share them.

One person:Leah Feiger. So let’s start with porn, if that’s OK. Today is a day about the issue of artificial intelligence in porn. Tell us about it. How are people handling this?

Though there’s bilateral support for many of these measures, federal legislation can take years to make it through both houses of Congress before being signed into law. State legislatures and local politicians can move faster.

The WIRED Politics Lab: Deep Fake Pornography and AI in the Age of AI: A Conversation with Leah Feiger

Earlier this year, Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, herself a victim of nonconsensual deepfakes, introduced the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act, or Defiance Act. If the bill were to be passed, deepfakepornography victims would be able to file a lawsuit if they could prove the deep fakes had been made without their consent. Ted Cruz, a Republican senator, introduced the Take it Down Act, which would require platforms to remove both revenge porn and nonconsensual deepfake porn.

Leah Feiger: This is WIRED Politics Lab, a show about how tech is changing politics. I’m Leah Feiger, the senior politics editor at WIRED. A lot of people were worried about how artificial intelligence could affect the election. It was so easy to make and spread artificial-generated images, audio, and video. The year of generative artificial intelligence was the year of the WIRED politics team’s project. It seems like the hysteria around Artificial Intelligence has waned, but deep fakes of politicians like Joe Biden and Donald Trump are still out there. And as we’ll talk about today, legislation on political deepfakes, including AI-generated pornography, is really tricky. So with the election looming, what has changed, if anything, and how much should we really be worrying about AI? Two of WIRED’s artificial intelligence experts are here to talk with me. We have a reporter who covers politics.

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Leah Feiger: Hey, Tori. And from Cambridge, Massachusetts, senior writer Will Knight. Will, thank you so much for coming on. You’re first time here.