Trump signs first federal law that combats non-consensual distribution of explicit imagery

US President Donald Trump signs “Take It Down Act” that criminalizes non-consensual imagery and AI-produced deepfakes of individuals.

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00:00Today, it's my honor to officially sign the Take It Down Act into law.

00:14It's a big thing, very important, so horrible what takes place.

00:19This will be the first ever federal law to combat the distribution of explicit,

00:23imaginary, posted without subjects' consent, take horrible pictures,

00:31and I guess sometimes even make up the pictures,

00:33and they post it without consent or anything else.

00:36And very importantly, this includes for forgeries generated by artificial intelligence known as deepfakes.

00:43We've all heard about deepfakes.

00:44I have them all the time, but nobody does anything.

00:47I ask Pam, can you help me, Pam?

00:49She says, no, I'm too busy, too busy doing other things.

00:52Don't worry, you'll survive, but a lot of people don't survive.

00:55That's true and so horrible.

00:57With the rise of AI image generation, countless women have been harassed with deepfakes

01:02and other explicit images distributed against their will.

01:06This is the wrong, and it's just so horribly wrong,

01:10and it's a very abusive situation like in some cases people have never seen before,

01:16and today we're making it totally illegal.