‘Horrific violations’: Manhattan DA seizes 12 sites selling celebrity deepfake porn

This week's lead is the Manhattan District Attorney's seizure of a dozen websites peddling AI-generated celebrity porn, a case that started with a single survivor's complaint and ended up exposing a network carrying non-consensual deepfakes of more than 1,200 people, most of them women. It is a rare, concrete enforcement win in a space usually defined by hand-wringing legislation and toothless takedown notices. Notably, nobody has been charged yet, which tells you plenty about how far ahead the deepfake economy has raced past the legal tools meant to contain it.