White House pushes tech industry to act on sexually abusive AI deepfakes

New generative AI tools have made it easy to transform someone’s likeness into a sexually explicit AI deepfake (Alamy/PA)

US President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing the tech industry and financial institutions to shut down a growing market of abusive sexual images made with artificial intelligence technology.

New generative AI tools have made it easy to transform someone’s likeness into a sexually explicit AI deepfake and share those realistic images across chatrooms or social media. The victims — be they celebrities or children — have little recourse to stop it.