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John Perry Barlow’S Call For Persuasion Over Power, Jonathan L. Zittrain
John Perry Barlow’S Call For Persuasion Over Power, Jonathan L. Zittrain
Duke Law & Technology Review
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Deepfakes: False Pornography Is Here And The Law Cannot Protect You, Douglas Harris
Deepfakes: False Pornography Is Here And The Law Cannot Protect You, Douglas Harris
Duke Law & Technology Review
It is now possible for anyone with rudimentary computer skills to create a pornographic deepfake portraying an individual engaging in a sex act that never actually occurred. These realistic videos, called “deepfakes,” use artificial intelligence software to impose a person’s face onto another person’s body. While pornographic deepfakes were first created to produce videos of celebrities, they are now being generated to feature other nonconsenting individuals—like a friend or a classmate. This Article argues that several tort doctrines and recent non-consensual pornography laws are unable to handle published deepfakes of non-celebrities. Instead, a federal criminal statute prohibiting these publications is …