San Francisco goes after websites that make AI deepfake nudes of women and girls

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San Francisco goes after websites that make AI deepfake nudes of women and girls
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Nearly a year after AI-generated nude images of high school girls upended a community in southern Spain, a juvenile court this summer sentenced 15 of their classmates to a year of probation.

But the artificial intelligence tool used to create the harmful deepfakes is still easily accessible on the internet, promising to “undress any photo” uploaded to the website within seconds. 

Now a new effort to shut down the app and others like it is being pursued in California, where San Francisco this week filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that experts say could set a precedent but will also face many hurdles.

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Why just women and girls? Why not young boys too?

Most of the time it is against females. Same as rape but guys are still raped too. It is that quiet reality that most people don't acknowledged. Slowly new laws are catching up but it is still one side focused.

It's a lawsuit against the sites, so it'll cover those too. But I don't think that AI-generated nudes of boys has been a specific problem yet.