America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here
中文摘要
美国实施《删除法案》打击非法深伪内容，但专家警告此举可能收效甚微，甚至引发网络审查风险。
English Summary
The US Take It Down Act mandates removing nonconsensual deepfakes, yet experts fear it may prove ineffective while enabling potential online censorship.
A law requiring social networks to quickly remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual imagery is now fully in force. But experts warn the policy could do little to help victims - and at worst could facilitate censorship online. Last May, President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act, a law addressing nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII). The law immediately criminalized distributing NCII, whether in the form of real or AI-generated material, something many states at least partially do already. But its namesake takedown provision is more sweeping. Taking effect a year after the law's passage - on May 19th of 2026 - it requires on … Read the full story at The Verge.