San Francisco Files Nation’s First Suit Over AI Pornography (1)

The San Francisco City Attorney brought a first-of-its-kind lawsuit on Thursday against the owners of 16 websites that create and distribute nonconsensual AI-generated deepfake pornography.

The complaint, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges the websites—which have been visited 200 million times collectively in the first half of the year—exploit open-source AI image generation models that allow users to “undress” or “nudify” women and girls.

Victims of those nonconsensual AI-generated intimate images “have little to no recourse” and “are left with profound psychological, emotional, economic, and reputational harms, and without control and autonomy over their bodies and images,” the complaint ...