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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Josh Taylor

Portal needed for victims to report AI deepfakes, federal police union says

A man is looking at a porn internet site on a screen
The Albanese government has tabled legislation to create a new criminal offence of sharing, without consent, sexually explicit images created using artificial intelligence or other technologies. Photograph: Dpa Picture Alliance/Alamy

A one-stop portal for victims to report AI deepfakes to police should be established, the federal police union has said, lamenting that police were forced to “cobble together” laws to charge the first person to face prosecution for spreading deepfake images of womenlast year.

The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, introduced legislation in parliament in June that will create a new criminal offence of sharing, without consent, sexually explicit images that have been digitally created using artificial intelligence or other forms of technology.

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