Bill Minnesota would prohibit the use of AI to create explicit sexual profits of real people

A bipartidist group of Minnesota state senators makes efforts for several restrictions on convincing the sexual explicit images generated by the real people.

According to a new draft law, companies that offer “deepfakes” generated by artificial intelligence or photorealist videos or images with people, should close their ability to generate pornographic content of real people, if they operate in the state of Minnesota.

Comes after The Minnesota Senate moved two years ago In order to prohibit the dissemination of sexually explicit non-sensitive depths, which have proliferated at a vast rate in recent years, because the technology has become more advanced and more common.

As federal parliamentarians move slowly on the problem in rapid evolution, more states should be done to prevent damage from the “Nudification” assisted by the image, said Senator Bill Sponsor Erin Maye Quade, DFL -Apple Valley.

“Anaja is not in dissemination, but in creation,” she told reporters at a press conference on Monday, who highlighted the draft law, who has the support of the Republicans, including Senator Eric Lucero, R-St. Michael, who joined Maye Quade on her latest Deepfake bill. “It is not the dissemination, but the fact that it exists at all.”

Increasing problem

Image generators of recently developed can take a dressed photo or a video of a real person and create nude images or place the face of a real person in the existing pornographic content.

More often, it is not consensual, say the victim’s lawyers.

The volume of sexual explicit depth is amazing, through many estimates. In a often quoted study of 2019 conducted by the Dutch company of Deeptrace Labs, 96% of deepfakes online were pornographic.

A minnesota resident, Megan Hurley, testified about her experience last week at the Senate Judicial and Public Safety Committee and shared it at the Monday’s press conference.

Last June, Hurley learned a man she has known for 20 years and believed that a friend used a picture on her Facebook page to create realistic nude images and pornographic videos. She was not the only one – they were also deep for 80 years, some she later watched with a friend to announce.

“This caused an irreversible evil for me and these other women,” she said. “I was humiliated, I never took nude or nude pictures with anyone, but because of this easily accessible site, there are convincing images, graphs and pornographic videos on the Internet forever.”

While most generative chatbots, such as GPT or Meta Chat do not allow the creation of sexual explicit images, many others do, said Maye Quade.

If the new Deepfake invoice becomes law, it will allow civil sanctions up to $ 500,000 compared to companies that do not restrict the generation of explicit images of real people. The State General Prosecutor will be empowered to take legal action against companies that do not comply, and Deepfakes can also bring trials.

The Judicial Committee and the Public Security of the Senate did not vote for the draft law last week. There is no home version, but Maye Quade said that the invoice has passed through the representative Zack Stephenson, DFL-Coon Rapids, for considering.

Implications of speech

Like the Minnesota Law of 2023 that prohibits the dissemination of Deepfake images, the draft law forbidding the Deepfake generation does not contain exceptions for satirical, political or artistic discourse.

A homeroad version of the band has offered an exception for images of sexual images that are parodies, satire, comments, critics or have political value or news. But the Senate voted unanimously to eliminate it.

If the new draft law has become a law, they would face serious challenges in court, if a judge can consider it unconstitutional, because it violates the protection of speeches, said Alan Rozenshtein, a law associate at the University of Minnesota.

“I recognize the problem Deepfakes, I think it’s a very serious problem. But people also have the right to create erotic images for their own consumption, ”he said.

In order to address the issue of Deepfake MPs without violating constitutional rights, parliamentarians should focus on the damage caused by distribution, said Rozenshtein.