{"id":25233,"date":"2024-09-23T09:10:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/news-18963\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T17:10:08","slug":"news-18963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/news-18963\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco\u2019s fight against deepfake porn, with City Attorney David Chiu (Lock and Code S05E20)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week on the Lock and Code podcast…<\/em><\/p>\n

On August 15, the city of San Francisco launched an entirely new fight against the world of deepfake porn\u2014it sued the websites that make the abusive material so easy to create.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeepfakes,\u201d as they\u2019re often called, are fake images and videos that utilize artificial intelligence to swap the face of one person onto the body of another. The technology went viral in the late 2010s, as independent film editors would swap the actors of one film for another\u2014replacing, say, Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future with Tom Holland.<\/p>\n

But very soon into the technology\u2019s debut, it began being used to create pornographic images of actresses, celebrities, and, more recently, everyday high schoolers and college students. Similar to the threat of \u201crevenge porn,\u201d in which abusive exes extort their past partners with the potential release of sexually explicit photos and videos, \u201cdeepfake porn\u201d is sometimes used to tarnish someone\u2019s reputation or to embarrass them amongst friends and family.<\/p>\n

But deepfake porn is slightly different from the traditional understanding of \u201crevenge porn\u201d in that it can be created without any real relationship to the victim. Entire groups of strangers can take the image of one person and put it onto the body of a sex worker, or an adult film star, or another person who was filmed having sex or posing nude.<\/p>\n

The technology to create deepfake porn is more accessible than ever, and it\u2019s led to a global crisis for teenage girls.<\/p>\n

In October of 2023, a reported group of more than 30 girls at a high school in New Jersey had their likenesses used by classmates to make sexually explicit and pornographic deepfakes. In March of this year, two teenage boys were arrested in Miami, Florida for allegedly creating deepfake nudes of male and female classmates who were between the ages of 12 and 13. And at the start of September, this month, the BBC reported that police in South Korea were investigating deepfake pornography rings at two major universities.<\/p>\n

While individual schools and local police departments in the United States are tackling deepfake porn harassment as it arises\u2014with suspensions, expulsions, and arrests\u2014the process is slow and reactive.<\/p>\n

Which is partly why San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu and his team took aim at not the individuals who create and spread deepfake porn, but at the websites that make it so easy to do so.<\/p>\n

Today, on the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz, we speak with San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu about his team\u2019s lawsuit against 16 deepfake porn websites, the city\u2019s history in protecting Californians, and the severity of abuse that these websites offer as a paid service.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt least one of these websites specifically promotes the non-consensual nature of this. I’ll just quote: \u2018Imagine wasting time taking her out on dates when you can just use website X to get her nudes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

David Chiu, San Francisco City Attorney<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tune in today for the full conversation.<\/p>\n

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Show notes and credits:<\/em><\/p>\n

Intro Music: \u201cSpellbound\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com<\/a>)
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Outro Music: \u201cGood God\u201d by Wowa (unminus.com)<\/p>\n

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