Why Trump can’t be trusted with Congress’ new anti-deepfake bill

is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast , and co-host of The Vergecast On today’s episode of Decoder, I’m talking to Verge policy editor Adi Robertson about the Take It Down Act, which is part of a long line of bills that would make it illegal to distribute non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII. That’s a broad term that encompasses what people used to call revenge porn, but which now includes things like deepfaked nudes. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and it just passed the Senate. It would create criminal penalties for people who share NCII, including AI-generated imagery, and also force platforms to take it down within 48 hours of a report or face financial penalties. NCII is a real and devastating problem on the internet — it ruins a lot of people’s lives, and AI is just making it worse. There are a lot of good reasons you’d want to pass a bill like this, but Adi just wrote a long piece arguing that giving the ... Read full article.