Jail time for those caught distributing deepfake porn under new Australian laws

1 June 2024 at 08:00

Attorney general Mark Dreyfus to introduce legislation on Wednesday targeting use of generative AI to create non-consensual deepfake porn

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Sharing digitally altered “deepfake” pornographic images will attract a penalty of six years’ jail, or seven years for those who also created them, under proposed new national laws to go before federal parliament next week.

The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, is expected to introduce legislation on Wednesday to 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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More than 300m children victims of online sexual abuse every year

The Guardian

Haroon Siddique and agency

26 May 2024 at 19:01

First global study of its kind exposes ‘staggering scale’ of crime, with one in nine men in the US admitting to the offence

More than 300 million children across the globe are victims of online sexual exploitation and abuse each year, research suggests.

In what is believed to be the first global estimate of the scale of the crisis, researchers at the University of Edinburgh found that 12.6% of the world’s children have been victims of nonconsensual talking, sharing and exposure to sexual images and video in the past year, equivalent to about 302 million young people.

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Why We Need to Get a Handle on AI

SecurityWeek

Marc Solomon

23 May 2024 at 06:43

It will be interesting to see how AI continues to evolve and how it is used by defenders as they attempt to leapfrog attackers and protect the organization against new forms of AI attacks.

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CFO Deepfake Redux — Arup Lost $26M via Video

Security Boulevard

Richi Jennings

22 May 2024 at 14:01

Deepfake Zoom of Doom: Construction giant Arup Group revealed as victim of January theft—10% of net profit lost.

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Marina Hyde on Russell Brand’s baptism; plus ‘deepfake’ cheerleaders: the woman wrongly accused over a viral video – podcast

The Guardian

Hosted by Savannah Ayoade-Greaves； written by Marina Hyde and Jenny Kleeman； narrated by Briony Rawle and Laurence Bouvard； produced by Rachel Porter； the executive producer was Ellie Bury.

18 May 2024 at 00:00

Marina Hyde: ‘So Russell Brand was baptised in the Thames, and all his sins were washed away. Cheaper than a lawyer, I suppose’; plus Jenny Kleeman meets Raffaella Spone, the woman accused of creating and circulating a damaging ‘deepfake’ video of teenage cheerleaders. The problem? Nothing was fake after all.

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Ensuring Election Security and Integrity

Security Boulevard

Tony Bradley

16 May 2024 at 10:28

As the United States approaches the 2024 presidential election, the integrity of our electoral process remains a critical issue. Despite persistent claims and efforts to undermine public confidence, there is no credible evidence of widespread election fraud in the 2020 […]

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Downranking won’t stop Google’s deepfake porn problem, victims say

Ars Technica

Ashley Belanger

14 May 2024 at 18:00

Downranking won’t stop Google’s deepfake porn problem, victims say

After backlash over Google's search engine becoming the primary traffic source for deepfake porn websites, Google has started burying these links in search results, Bloomberg reported.

Over the past year, Google has been driving millions to controversial sites distributing AI-generated pornography depicting real people in fake sex videos that were created without their consent, Similarweb found. While anyone can be targeted—police already are bogged down with dealing with a flood of fake AI child sex images—female celebrities are the most common victims. And their fake non-consensual intimate imagery is more easily discoverable on Google by searching just about any famous name with the keyword "deepfake," Bloomberg noted.

Google refers to this content as "involuntary fake" or "synthetic pornography." The search engine provides a path for victims to report that content whenever it appears in search results. And when processing these requests, Google also removes duplicates of any flagged deepfakes.

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