Doubtless wearisome for victims, the regulation will not be broadly enforced for a few 12 months, whereas any revenge porn already on-line continues spreading. Maybe most irritating, as soon as the regulation kicks in, victims will nonetheless have to police their very own revenge porn on-line. And the 48-hour window leaves time for content material to be downloaded and reposted, leaving them susceptible on any unmonitored platforms.
Some victims are already bored with combating this battle. Final July, when Google started downranking deepfake porn apps to make AI-generated NCII much less discoverable, one deepfake sufferer, Sabrina Javellana, told The New York Times that she spent months reporting dangerous content material on numerous platforms on-line. And that didn’t cease the faux pictures from spreading. Joe Morelle, a Democratic US consultant who has talked to victims of deepfake porn and sponsored legal guidelines to assist them, agreed that “these pictures dwell perpetually.”
“It simply by no means ends,” Javellana mentioned. “I simply have to simply accept it.”
Andrea Powell—director of Alecto AI, an app based by a revenge porn survivor that helps victims take away NCII on-line—warned on a 2024 panel that Ars attended that requiring victims to trace down “their very own imagery [and submit] a number of claims throughout totally different platforms [increases] their sense of isolation, disgrace, and worry.”
Whereas the Take It Down Act appears flawed, passing a federal regulation imposing penalties for permitting deepfake porn posts might function a deterrent for unhealthy actors or presumably spark a tradition shift by making it clear that posting AI-generated NCII is dangerous.
Victims have lengthy instructed that consistency is essential to protecting revenge porn offline, and the Take It Down Act actually provides that, making a reasonably delayed delete button on each main platform.
Though it appears clear that the Take It Down Act will certainly make it simpler than ever to report NCII, whether or not the regulation will successfully cut back the unfold of NCII on-line is an unknown and can doubtless hinge on the 48-hour timeline overcoming criticisms.