Content warning: this email discusses online harassment via digital forgeries of pornography.
Did you see the Rolling Stone article about Alexandria’s newest bill to regulate AI?
Nearly 96% of deepfake images and video created by AI contain pornographic imagery of women — all of which is created non-consensually. Last year, more deepfake abuse videos were shared than every previous year combined.1
So Alexandria worked closely with abuse survivors to write the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act. If passed, victims could sue anyone who ‘knew or recklessly disregarded’ their consent when they created, shared, or received the deepfake pornography.
Alexandria has been the target of disturbing online harassment for years. But she isn’t afraid to hold those that are causing harm to account.
Alexandria made it clear in the interview:
“It’s so important to me that people understand that this is not just a form of interpersonal violence, it’s not just about the harm that’s done to the victim. Because this technology threatens to do it at scale — this is about class subjugation… when you are able to actively subjugate all women in society on a scale of millions at once digitally, it’s a direct connection with taking their rights away.”
The DEFIANCE Act would amend the Violence Against Women Act, and has been endorsed by more than 20 organizations, including the National Women’s Law Center, the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and the Sexual Violence Prevention Association.
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