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Write To Your Local Representative To Stop Deepfake Creation

There is a rapidly emerging consensus that new legislation is needed to confront the threat of deepfakes. New policies are rapidly being proposed in response to high-profile instances of deepfakes.

This is the opportune moment to make sure that legislation designed to confront deepfakes will actually prevent malicious deepfakes from being created.

Write here to your local representative to demand regulation that holds software developers and providers accountable for deepfake creation.

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If we settle upon deepfake policies that don’t hold software developers and providers liable for the harms that result from their policies, deepfakes will only continue to proliferate - even if it is nominally illegal to distribute them.

In both the UK and the US it remains totally legal to create deepfakes. The UK’s Online Safety Bill only bans the distribution of sexually explicit deepfakes, and the proposed DEFIANCE Act in the US would only ban the creation of sexually deepfakes if they are created with the intention of distribution.

This at a time during which malicious deepfakes are becoming ever more prevalent. Just this week: deepfakes have circulated representing Taylor Swift endorsing Donald Trump; a TV news channel in the United Arab Emirates was disrupted by deepfake news; and the Federal Communications Commission has had to clarify (in response to deepfake robocalls of President Biden) that AI-generated phone calls are illegal.

Current legislation cannot match this escalating threat. Help us ensure that the laws governments pass to deal with this burgeoning menace effectively stop the creation of malicious deepfakes.