Taylor Swift Deep Fakes Spur Proposal of Federal Bill DEFIANCE Act

The Taylor Swift deep fake incident has spurred the proposal of new legislation to protect victims from explicit deep fake images or videos.

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00:00 The Taylor Swift deepfake incident has spurred the proposal of new legislation to protect

00:05 people from explicit deepfake images or videos.

00:09 Last month, Taylor Swift fans were tweeting "Protect Taylor Swift" in an attempt to cover

00:14 up explicit deepfakes of the star that started circulating online.

00:18 Swift is not the first celebrity to be affected by deepfakes.

00:21 Actor Scarlett Johansson spoke out on her own deepfakes in 2018, saying, "Nothing can

00:26 stop someone from cutting and pasting my image or anyone else's onto a different body and

00:31 making it look as eerily realistic as desired.

00:35 There are basically no rules on the internet because it is an abyss that remains virtually

00:39 lawless."

00:40 Now it seems U.S. lawmakers are looking to change that, as the Defiance Act, short for

00:45 Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act, has been proposed.

00:50 The act would allow victims of deepfakes to sue those distributing, creating, and receiving

00:55 said explicit images, giving hope to the affected victims.