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San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu has announced that his office is litigating 16 websites that use AI to develop and distribute non-consensual deepfake nude images of women and girls. This comes amid heightened attention on the creation and distribution of AI nonconsensual images. The lawsuit, the first of its kind in San Francisco, blames operators of the websites for violating state and federal laws that denounce deepfake pornography, child pornography, and revenge pornographic material as well as California’s unfair competition law. Chiu wants to raise alarm about this ill-practice According to the New York Times, the initiative was chief deputy attorney Yvonne Mere’s idea, who rallied her colleagues to craft a lawsuit, that should result in the closure of 16 websites. The websites’ names were censored in the copy of the lawsuit availed to the public Thursday. While the Attorney’s office was yet to identify most of the websites’ owners —officials from that office have expressed optimism over finding the names of the sites’ proprietors and holding them accountable. During a press conference Thursday, Chiu said, the sites produce “pornographic” materials without the consensus of the persons in the photo. Chiu has hinted that the lawsuit seeks to shut down the websites and raise alarm about this form of “sexual abuse” and bring it to an end. “This investigation has taken us to the darkest corners of the internet, and I am absolutely horrified for the women and girls who have had to endure this exploitation.” Chiu. On the said websites, users upload photos of fully dressed real people, before AI alters the photographs to mimic what the person would look like naked. As indicated by the lawsuit, one of the sites promotes the non-consensual nature of the images, asserting, “Imagine wasting time taking her out on dates, when…

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