As AI-generated explicit images of singer Taylor Swift create massive debate among the policy makers, lawmakers in Washington, DC have proposed a bill that would let victims sue over digitally faked sexual images. The ‘Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits’ (DEFIANCE) Act will add a civil right of action for intimate “digital forgeries” depicting an identifiable person without their consent, letting victims collect financial damages from anyone who “knowingly produced or possessed” the image with the intent to spread it.
