Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
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Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
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News In Image-based abuse: from revenge porn to deepfakes Deepfake porn fears: AI-generated faces as realistic as real faces, research finds
Researchers at Lancaster University and UC Berkeley found participants correctly identified AI-generated faces only 48.2% of the time, prompting calls for ethics guidelines to prevent deepfake abuse.
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Interview ‘Trafficking and porn are different’: Meet the world’s most sex-positive accountant
Dr. Cendrine Chappuis, CEO of sex worker-focused tax firm DiTa, previews the second Sex Work Survival Guide Summit ahead of its May 1, 2022 date, covering financial discrimination, platform safety, and the limits of
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News In Image-based abuse: from revenge porn to deepfakes Taiwan’s considering prison sentences of up to 7 years for deepfake porn crimes
Taiwan's Ministry of Justice proposed sentences of up to seven years for producing or distributing deepfake porn, following the arrest of a YouTuber who allegedly made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling faked celebrity
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage UK media watchdog targets OnlyFans, TikTok, Snapchat and Twitch with ‘robust’ age verification measures
Ofcom has ordered UK video-sharing platforms including OnlyFans, TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitch to implement robust age verification and tougher content removal processes, with fines or service suspension for non-compliance.
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News In Image-based abuse: from revenge porn to deepfakes Concerns over ‘one-click’ deepfake porn videos as extortion scams on the rise
A new AI app enabling 'one-click' deepfake porn creation from a single photo is fueling extortion scams, with scammers harvesting Instagram images to blackmail victims.
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News Mastercard under pressure to end ‘discrimination’ against sex workers
2,409 sex workers and adult creators signed an open letter demanding Mastercard scrap its October 15 2021 adult content verification rules, arguing the policy drives marginalized workers into exploitation.
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News Australian lawyer calls for sex robot legislation ‘sooner rather than later’
Two Australian legal academics argue sex robot legislation is needed now, citing risks of sexual violence normalization, as Elon Musk's Tesla Bot announcement adds a fresh wrinkle to the debate.
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News Apple bans anti-vax dating app Unjected from App Store
Apple removed anti-vaxxer dating app Unjected from its App Store for referencing the COVID-19 pandemic, while Google kept it live with a misinformation warning.
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News TikTok moves from human to automated video removals for nudity violations
TikTok is replacing human moderators with automated removal for nudity and other policy violations in the US and Canada, with a claimed 5% error rate across 8.5 million US uploads in Q1 2021.
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News World’s first porn tube site shutting down on September 5
XTube, MindGeek's pioneering porn tube site, shuts down September 5, 2021 after losing 70% of its video library and half its traffic following Pornhub's illegal content scandal.
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News In Image-based abuse: from revenge porn to deepfakes Pornhub accused of being ‘criminal enterprise’ in lawsuit filed by women alleging exploitation
34 women sued MindGeek alleging Pornhub hosted non-consensual explicit videos, including content filmed when they were minors, describing the platform as a criminal enterprise.
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News Twitter’s Super Follows will have an OnlyFans integration in an ‘adult content’ section
Researcher Jane Manchun Wong uncovered evidence that Twitter's Super Follows will include an adult content category and an OnlyFans integration, requiring users to be 18+ with at least 10,000 followers.
