SF City Attorney Suing Deep Fake Web Sites

It is certainly a noble gesture, but one that is doomed to fail.

The San Francisco city attorney is suing 16 websites that create and distribute non-consensual AI-generated pornography. This is a first of a kind lawsuit.

The sites, which are not named, allow paying customers to upload photos of real people, apply AI to the pictures to remove their clothes and download the result.

The marketing on one website says “imagine wasting time taking her out on dates when you can use website x to get her nudes”.

Collectively, these web sites were visited over 200 million times during the first six months of this year. This impacted a lot of celebrities but more importantly, school children.

16 images from Beverly Hills Middle School circulated among teenagers this year according the the city attorney. He said similar instances occurred in California, Washington, and New Jersey.

Representatives of the San Francisco City Attorney’s office underlined that often, such images are used to bully, humiliate, and threaten women and girls. They also contributed to several extortion schemes, which, in some instances, caused individuals to become suicidal.

Even if the city wins, those sites will just go away and new sites pop up. This one is going to be next to impossible to win.

But, I applaud him for trying. Stay tuned, we will watch this case. Credit: Cyber News

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