The founder of a sugar dating site is facing trial in Malaysia for allegedly causing “fear or alarm” to the public, with authorities pressuring him to disclose the identities of “people in power” using the site. Darren Chan, who launched Sugarbook in 2017, was arrested in Kuala Lumpur in February following a rise in the […]
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The UK government is set to make creating non-consensual deepfake porn, and preparing technology elements to create such content, criminal offences. On January 7, 2025 the British Ministry of Justice announced that a new offence will be created as part of its Crime and Policing Bill, which will make taking intimate images without consent, and […]
A lawmaker has proposed a bill in Texas that would ban the sale of sex toys in business establishments deemed not to be “sexually orientated”, including supermarkets and pharmacies. The bill, HB 1549, was proposed by Republican state representative Hillary Hickland. It would see fines of up to $5,000 imposed if a company was found […]
The efforts of some major search engines to crack down on nonconsensual deepfake porn have arguably been undermined by a news investigation showing that they can point users to tutorials explaining how to make deepfakes. An investigation by Glamour Magazine showed that Google, Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo search also pointed users of the search engines […]
How should porn, sex and sextech-adjacent AI tools (and the content they can produce) be regulated? Should they be regulated by government and government-commissioned authorities at all? With the recent rise of AI-generated deepfake porn making news around the world, largely due to its nefarious use, these questions are also rising to the fore. Some […]
