Alaska signed onto a bipartisan letter urging major search engines and payment platforms to combat the growing spread of computer generated photos that depict the likeness of real people in pornographic images.
“In Alaska, we have laws that penalize the distribution of revenge porn and the leaking of private and intimate media,” Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor stated on Aug. 26. “Those acts result in exploitation and embarrassment and rightly deserve punishment. But deepfakes allow someone to create moments that never happened and cause that same level of embarrassment and exploitation with only a few computer clicks. So, we should approach it with the same level of caution and vigilance.”
The letter outlines the failures of tech companies to limit the creation of deepfakes and calls for stronger safeguards to better protect the public. In a separate letter to payment platforms, the coalition urged companies to take bolder action to protect the public by identifying and removing payment authorization for this type of content.
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In an Aug. 27 announcement, the Alaska Dept. of Law noted that the spread of computer-generated deepfake porn poses significant harm to the public – particularly when it comes to embarrassing, intimidating and exploiting women and girls. Men and boys have been victimized as well. A recent report, highlighted in the letter, found that 98% of fake videos online are deepfake porn.
In their letters, the coalition points to existing industry practices that can be deployed to address the growing problem. For example, search engines already limit access to harmful content such as searches for “how to build a bomb” and “how to kill yourself.” The attorneys general urged these companies to adopt similar measures for searches such as “how to make deepfake pornography,” “undress apps,” “nudify apps,” or “deepfake porn.” The coalition also urged payment platforms to deny sellers the ability to use their services when they learn of connections to this content and to remove those sellers from their network.
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This letter will go nowhere!! Committee after committee have had testimonies from all big tech to close down their programs and their employee managed groups that help these sick minded tech programs and persons. Zuckerberg came to the point of penalties and prison. TikTok was even worse and went through the committee testimonies for prosecution and who stopped that one? Its in the White House being used and examined. Why? It’s a money maker and the value of that tech sold on the stock market will make a bundle. But, who will be the head of TikTok in the USA? That is another question no one answers from the White House.
What happened to the rule lifting the section in the regulations to give the capacity of pblic law suits on big tech? Zuckerberg thought he’d go to prison for the rest of his ,life and one conversatkion with President Trump and he is up and running with the same involvement.
This is a political issue with those who put the letter together. It’s smoke and mirrors and excitement that goes no where.
Good luck if you sign it.
Take away there phones. I grew up not having these devices and survived. Kids today don’t even know how to talk to a real person face to face, let alone respect that person.