美国参议院一致通过一项法案，允许非自愿色情合成图像（也称为“深度伪造”）的受害者起诉创作者，并索取赔偿。该法案被称为“破坏显式伪造图像和非自愿编辑法案”（DEFIANCE），允许受害者对那些出于传播目的制作或处理这些图像的人提起民事诉讼。

😁 该法案允许受害者对那些出于传播目的制作或处理这些图像的人提起民事诉讼。

😄 识别出这些深度伪造图像的受害者可以获得高达 150,000 美元的赔偿，如果事件与“实际或企图性侵犯、跟踪或骚扰”或“这些伤害的直接和近因”有关，则最高可获得 250,000 美元。

🤔 该法案的通过标志着美国立法机构对人工智能技术滥用问题的关注，并试图为受害者提供法律保护。

😊 该法案强调了人工智能技术发展带来的伦理和法律挑战，需要制定相应的法律框架来规范其应用，防止其被用于侵犯个人权利和利益。

🥰 该法案的通过也反映了社会对人工智能技术发展的担忧，希望通过立法手段来确保人工智能技术的发展能够造福社会，而不是成为犯罪工具。

The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday letting victims of nonconsensual intimate images created by AI — or “deepfakes” — sue their creators for damages.

The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act (DEFIANCE) Act lets victims of sexually explicit deepfakes pursue civil remedies against those who produced or processed the image with the intent to distribute it. Victims who are identifiable in these kinds of deepfakes can receive up to $150,000 in damages under the bill and up to $250,000 if the incident was connected to “actual or attempted sexual assault, stalking, or harassment” or “the direct and proximate cause” of those harms. It’s now up to the House to take up the bill before it can be moved to the president’s desk to be signed into law.

Many people first learned about nonconsensual intimate deepfakes when sexually explicit AI-created images of Taylor Swift flooded social media earlier this year. These types of images have also become an issue in schools around the country, where high school girls have learned of intimate AI-generated pictures being passed around by peers.

In a speech on the Senate floor, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that sexually explicit deepfakes aren’t “just some fringe issue that happens to only a few people — it’s a widespread problem. These types of malicious and hurtful pictures can destroy lives.”

Schumer said the DEFIANCE Act is just “one of the examples of the AI guardrails I often talk about. AI is a remarkable technology that can spur incredible innovation, but we must pass guardrails to prevent its worst abuses from causing people grave harm.” He rolled out a roadmap for how Senate committees should approach AI legislation earlier this year.

He urged the House to take up the DEFIANCE Act. There’s already a companion bill in the chamber, though there’s only a week and a half left before Congress disperses for the August recess.

“By passing this bill, we are telling victims of explicit nonconsensual deepfakes that we hear them and we are taking action,” Schumer said.