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How One Teen Victim of AI Porn Fights Explicit Deepfakes

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How One Teen Victim of AI Porn Fights Explicit Deepfakes

By Movieguide® Contributor

One teen is taking on the issue of AI porn with the Take It Down Act, a bill designed to immediately remove non-consensual explicit images created with the technology. 

Elliston Berry was just 14 when a photo was taken from her Instagram account, run through an AI program and made to look like she was nude. 

“I had PSAT testing and I had volleyball games,” she told CBS. “And the last thing I need to focus and worry about is fake nudes of mine going around the school. Those images were up and floating around Snapchat for nine months.”

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After getting in contact with the office of Texas Senator Ted Cruz, the images were removed. Now, Berry wants to help others who are in the same position through the Take It Down Act. 

“Millions of not only girls, but boys, teenagers, women, children, are being harassed, and they are being targeted and victimized, and there’s nothing out there that can help them and save them,” she said at a press conference. “Thanks to the Take It Down Act, we are able to give victims a voice. We are able to protect them — not only the future generations, but the victims and survivors of this AI crime.”

This act, which Sen. Cruz introduced with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, “would criminalize the publication of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including AI-generated NCII (commonly referred to as ‘deepfake revenge pornography’), and require social media and similar websites to have in place procedures to remove such content within 48 hours of notice from a victim,” per the U.S. Senate website. 

“Over the past several months, courageous victims of AI-deepfake ‘revenge porn’ have shared their stories to raise awareness and inform lawmakers’ efforts to stop this despicable behavior,” Sen. Cruz said in a statement. “Passage of our bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act will give innocent victims — many of whom are teenage girls — the opportunity to seek justice against deviants who publish these abusive images. It will also hold Big Tech accountable by making sure websites remove these disgusting fake videos and pictures immediately.”

Sen. Klobuchar added, “We must provide victims of online abuse with the legal protections they need when intimate images are shared without their consent, especially now that deepfakes are creating horrifying new opportunities for abuse. This bipartisan legislation builds on my work to ensure that victims can have this material removed from social media platforms and will ensure law enforcement can hold perpetrators accountable.”

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