California governor signs bills to protect children from AI deepfake nudes
2024-09-30
The Bakersfield Californian
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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed bipartisan bills criminalizing the creation, possession, and distribution of AI-generated child sexual abuse images and deepfake nudes. The new laws close legal loopholes, making such content illegal even if not depicting real individuals, in response to increasing misuse of generative AI tools.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
The event involves AI systems explicitly, specifically AI tools used to generate harmful sexual imagery and deepfakes. The misuse of these AI systems has directly led to harms including violations of human rights and sexual exploitation of minors and adults, which are clear harms under the AI Incident definition. The laws are a response to realized harms caused by AI-generated content, not just potential future harms. Therefore, this event qualifies as an AI Incident because it concerns the direct use of AI systems to produce illegal and harmful content affecting individuals' rights and safety.[AI generated]