Australia introduces bill to criminalise sexually explicit deepfakes
The Australian Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus introduced the Criminal Code Amendment (Deepfake Sexual Material) Bill 2024 to the parliament on Wednesday. Dreyfus and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese both contended that non-consensual deepfake sexually explicit materials are a “damaging and deeply distressing form of abuse” and therefore should attach serious criminal penalties. The bill has been [...]