Paris Hilton backs DEFIANCE Act targeting explicit deepfakes
“Paris Hilton urged lawmakers to pass the DEFIANCE Act, saying AI has made non-consensual explicit deepfakes easier to produce and spread.”
Key points
- Paris Hilton urged lawmakers to pass the DEFIANCE Act, saying AI has made non-consensual explicit deepfakes easier to produce and spread.
- She said stronger legal remedies are needed and tied her advocacy to her own past experience of exploitation.
Paris Hilton returned to Capitol Hill to campaign for the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act (DEFIANCE Act), urging lawmakers to strengthen legal protections for victims of non-consensual explicit content.
Speaking alongside Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Hilton said her push is rooted in her own experience as a teenager when an intimate video was circulated without her consent. She described the public reaction as humiliating and said the lack of legal safeguards at the time left her with little recourse.
Hilton argued that rapid advances in AI have escalated the threat by making it easier to fabricate realistic explicit material, including deepfake pornography. She said the DEFIANCE Act would give victims clearer legal pathways to pursue those who create and distribute pornographic deepfakes.
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