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An abundance of laws is little help against the evil intentions of the human heart.

• numbsafari 3y ago
  It would give victims a path to defend themselves. Today, they have nothing.
  • semiquaver 3y ago
    Deepfake videos aren’t covered by existing libel law?
    • numbsafari 3y ago
      To the best of my knowledge, in the US, there is no explicit law and libel/defamation laws have not been adequately tested and it is understood that they have very serious limitations, especially for those who previously engaged in sex work. > But no federal law criminalizes the creation or sharing of non-consensual deepfake porn in the United States. A lawsuit is also unlikely to stand up in civil court. https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2023/06/23/deepfake-pornography-law https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2023/06/23/deepfake-porno... > ... if someone makes a deepfake or otherwise posts a nonconsensual video of someone who does sex work, the defense could argue that because the woman’s reputation already involves sexual activity, her reputation is not being defamed by another video of sexual activity. Such an argument — and thus pursuit under defamation as a whole — would be missing the actual point, which is the violation of consent. https://www.cyber.forum.yale.edu/blog/2021/7/20/deepfake-pornography-beyond-defamation-law https://www.cyber.forum.yale.edu/blog/2021/7/20/deepfake-por...