00:00The Defiance Act confers on American citizens a civil right to sue. Take that information and
00:09give the rest of the details because that's the bit that's new here. Yes, that's exactly what it
00:15does. It essentially empowers victims of this non-consensual deep fake technology, people who
00:22have been non-consensually undressed by this AI tool, and it allows them to sue the people
00:27responsible for posting that. And it's a companion to a bill that was signed into law last year
00:34by President Trump that creates criminal penalties for distributing that kind of content.
00:41But it didn't go through the House last time, the Defiance Act, whereas Takedown did. And why
00:48would this time be any different? Is the pushback becoming enough? Because thus far, all we've
00:54really seen is the Department of Defense put Grok AI within its military system instead of pushing
01:00back on this being something that Grok or X needs to clamp down in some way.
01:05That's true. There definitely is more of an appetite in Congress to pass this legislation.
01:12There have been six new co-sponsors that have come on board since the beginning of the year.
01:17I think that the issue of non-consensual AI-generated images has become so vivid to lawmakers. Many of
01:28them, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are themselves the victims of this. So I think the appetite has
01:34really broadened this year.
01:35Emily, where does the company X and the platform X fit into this in a citizen's right to sue and
01:45those that distribute the content?
01:48So this, the Defiance Act, which passed the Senate this week, that probably would not impact
01:54Grok. That impacts the people who are responsible for distributing the images. But there is a lot of
02:00conversation right now about whether the Take It Down Act would empower attorneys general to sue
02:06Grok, XAI, Elon Musk over, you know, some level of responsibility for, you know, thousands of these
02:14images proliferating every hour. So far, no attorneys general have taken that up, but it's definitely under
02:21serious consideration.
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