Teen victim of AI-generated 'deepfake pornography' urges Congress to pass 'Take It Down Act'

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Teen victim of AI-generated 'deepfake pornography' urges Congress to pass 'Take It Down Act'
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Elliston Berry's life was turned upside down after a photo she posted on Instagram was digitally altered online to be pornographic.

Anna McAdams has always kept a close eye on her 15-year-old daughter Elliston Berry's life online. So it was hard to come to terms with what happened 15 months ago on the Monday morning after Homecoming in Aledo, Texas.A classmate took a picture from Elliston's Instagram, ran it through an artificial intelligence program that appeared to remove her dress and then sent around the digitally altered image on Snapchat.

These 16 sites had 200 million visits in just the first six months of the year, according to the lawsuit.City Attorney David Chiu says the 16 sites in the lawsuit are just the start.'We're aware of at least 90 of these websites. So this is a large universe and it needs to be stopped,' Chiu said.Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is co-sponsoring another angle of attack with Democratic Minnesota Sen. Amy Klochubar.

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