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[–] Gigan 63 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If they're going to go this way, I don't think it should be limited to just porn. There are plenty of ways you could ruin someone's life without a deepfake being sexually explicit.

[–] Deestan 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There already are a lot of laws covering that. This one is to cover an additional angle where people create deepfake without provably publishing it, the intent being that showing it to friends and verbally threatening to "leak" them should be easier to prosecute.

If you create a deepfake and share it, you're slapped with two crimes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the intent being that showing it to friends and verbally threatening to "leak" them should be easier to prosecute.

That's blackmail, which is already illegal.

[–] nogooduser 7 points 2 months ago

Using a mobile phone while driving has always been illegal if you could argue that it was dangerous driving or driving without due care and attention. They made a law specifically saying that using a mobile phone without hands free is illegal anyway. This makes it easier to prosecute because you don’t need to argue that they were driving dangerously or without due care.

I imagine that this law has the same intent of making this specific act illegal to prevent them having to argue that it fits another crime.

[–] billbasher 8 points 2 months ago

Yeah the way people can recreate someone “in need of assistance” to trick family or associates is really scary especially for people who aren’t exactly tech savvy. That seems to me to be a worse crime than an explicit video that is pretty obviously doctored