New Bill Targeting Sexual Deepfakes Passes Lower House

Published on July 4, 2024

A bill that targets the sharing of deepfake sexual materials without consent has passed the lower house of the Australian parliament. This comes amid a rise in sexually explicit images and videos generated by artificial intelligence (AI) or other technology on the internet. There have been cases where images of other people were used to create graphic AI deepfakes, raising concerns among lawmakers and the public. On July 3, the House of Representatives passed the Criminal Code Amendment (Deepfake Sexual Material) Bill 2024 after it was introduced a month earlier. This is a further step in lawmakers’ effort to crack down on the proliferation of such harmful materials....

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