The Senate passed bipartisan legislation Tuesday that would allow individuals to sue over nonconsensual intimate depictions of them that were generated by artificial intelligence.
The bill’s passage comes in the wake of intense criticism of Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, for allowing the Grok AI chatbot to generate sexualized images of real people, including children.
The bipartisan bill would also allow for suits for possession or production of deepfake porn if there was also intent to disclose the images. The bill is known as the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits, or DEFIANCE Act.
