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Dominic Giannini

UNCOVERED: Urgent call to pass deepfake sexual image sharing laws | History Defined

New laws to tackle deepfakes must be passed immediately, a Senate committee says. (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS)

Criminal offences for those creating or threatening to share digitally altered sexual images of a person need streamlining and new laws to tackle deepfakes must be passed immediately, a committee says.

Deepfakes involve digitally altered images of a person or their body, while AI can be used to generate an image based on a photo or to superimpose faces onto pornographic material.

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