The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) calls on Congressional leaders to act after the Grok chatbot created AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and was used to create tens of thousands of images nudifying and sexualizing women without their consent on the X platform. NCOSE says the time for Congress to act is now because Grok is just the latest example of Big Tech’s callousness and carelessness when it comes to its own facilitation and monetization of sexual exploitation.
Just this week, the DEFIANCE Act was passed by the Senate and would rightfully give survivors of nonconsensual deepfake pornography a way to take civil action against their perpetrators.
“Sexually-explicit deepfake images are used to harass, de-humanize, and silence people, particularly women. If AI technology is permitted to advance without accountability, it will not be a tool of innovation, but rather a cheap weapon for harassment and humiliation. The DEFIANCE Act is a common-sense solution that gives victims of this abuse a means to hold the perpetrators accountable. We urge the House to pass this bill,” said Dani Pinter, Chief Legal Officer and Director of the Law Center for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.
“Big Tech companies are facilitating an epidemic of sexual exploitation, as AI and other digital tools are being used to sexually abuse, exploit, and harass with no guardrails and no recourse. Federal laws have failed to protect American citizens while allowing Big Tech to profit off the harm they facilitate.