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#FBI agent explains how easy it is to #ID people posting #AIporn without #consent

The earliest arrests under the Take It Down Act ( #TIDA ) suggest that cops don't have to work too hard to #identify people illegally posting and selling #nonconsensual sexualized #deepfakes of women online.

Last week, the FBI arrested two men after visiting #porn websites and clicking on hashtags like #AI #Deepfakes or video titles like "AI_tits" or "Ass_AI."
#privacy

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/fbi-easily-nabs-man-selling-sexy-deepfakes-who-used-his-own-photo-in-profile/

FBI easily nabs man selling sexy deepfakes who used his own photo in profile

A creepy saved post on Instagram linked man to AI porn account, FBI says.

Ars Technica

Miguel Afonso Caetano May 20

"Much has already been said here at Techdirt about the problems with TIDA’s takedown requirements, so I need not repeat those critiques at length. In brief: 48 hours is incredibly fast, the law doesn’t require a process for the user whose content was removed to appeal a takedown or have it restored, it imposes no penalties for bad-faith takedown requests, and it does a poor job of respecting First Amendment protections for speech. It immunizes platforms from liability for removing content that isn’t actually illegal NCII, while simultaneously giving the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) the power to police compliance, as the agency’s chairman reminded a dozen or so major companies in a letter last week.

This is a recipe for rampant abuse. It incentivizes a “remove first, ask questions never” approach. And it’s particularly dangerous in our current political moment. Not only did President Trump vow to use TIDA against unflattering online speech about him, the Trump FTC is led by two hard-right Republican commissioners who’ve been using their position to pursue an anti-LGBTQ, anti-porn agenda. TIDA’s extremely abusable takedown mandate thus poses a huge risk to online free speech in general, and to content posted by queer and trans people and sex workers in particular.

With all that said, the takedown requirements have the potential to do a lot of good. I’ve spent the past several years studying AI-generated CSAM, particularly the use of “nudify” apps – and, more recently, Grok –- to create nonconsensual deepfake pornography.
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In short, the notice-and-takedown process mandated by TIDA might turn out to be really helpful to NCII victims, or it might be wildly abused, or both. The platforms receiving and processing those notices are the only ones who will know. That’s why they should tell us in their transparency reports."

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/19/hey-platforms-add-take-it-down-to-your-transparency-reports/

#USA #SocialMedia #TIDA #CSAM #Censorship #Transparency

Hey Platforms: Add TAKE IT DOWN To Your Transparency Reports

Today marks the deadline for online platforms to implement a process for notice-and-takedown of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) under the TAKE IT DOWN Act (TIDA), which became law one year ag…

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