Following the leak of pornographic AI pictures of Taylor Swift that surfaced on the Internet earlier this week, lawmakers reintroduced a bill Tuesday (January 23) to criminalize the non-consensual distribution of digitally altered pornographic photographs. The offending photographs were posted on AI celebrity porn website Celeb Jihad on January 15. They were reposted on X, formerly Twitter, this week, garnering millions of views and causing debate before the accounts were suspended. Representative Joseph Morelle, a New York Democrat, introduced the "Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act" in May 2023 "to protect the right to privacy online amid a rise of artificial intelligence and digitally-manipulated content." Representative Tom Kean, a New Jersey Republican, has since co-sponsored it. In a Newsweek interview, Manly, Stewart and Finaldi attorney Sarah Klein said what happened to Swift "should never happen to any woman. It is abuse, plain and simple. Taylor should definitely take legal action."
Should Taylor Swift sue the ones responsible for the AI photos?
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