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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matt O'Brien and Barbara Ortutay

White House pushes tech industry to shut down market for sexually abusive AI deepfakes

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

President Joe Biden's administration is pushing the tech industry and financial institutions to shut down a growing market of abusive sexual images made with artificial intelligence technology.

New generative AI tools have made it easy to transform someone's likeness into a sexually explicit AI deepfake and share those realistic images across chatrooms or social media. The victims — be they celebrities or children — have little recourse to stop it.

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