Trump will signal the Take It Down Act criminalizing AI deepfakes at present

President Donald Trump is ready to signal the Take It Down Act at present, according to CNN. The act is a bit of bipartisan laws that criminalizes the publication of “nonconsensual intimate visible depictions,” together with AI deepfakes. The regulation made it via the US Home of Representatives in April 2025, prompting concern from free speech advocates that consider components of the regulation could possibly be simply abused to curtail speech.

The Take It Down Act was created to handle the unfold of nonconsensual, sexually exploitative pictures on-line. Legal guidelines exist addressing the difficulty on the state stage, and a few on-line platforms have already got strategies for requesting a nonconsensual picture or video be taken down. This new regulation would set a federal normal, although, making taking down posts necessary and directing firms to create a system for requesting pictures or movies be eliminated, underneath the supervision of the Federal Commerce Fee.

The difficulty with the regulation as written, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is that its takedown provision “applies to a wider class of content material…than the narrower NCII [nonconsensual intimate image] definitions discovered elsewhere within the invoice.” The EFF additionally means that the quick time frame of 48 hours that the Take It Down Act requires implies that smaller on-line platforms will most likely simply take away posts once they obtain a grievance fairly than confirm that the put up really violates the regulation.

Trump has expressed curiosity in making the most of the brand new regulation, as effectively. “I’m going to make use of that invoice for myself, too, in the event you don’t thoughts. There’s no one will get handled worse than I do on-line. No person,” Trump mentioned throughout a joint session of Congress in March. Given the lopsided composition of the present FTC and the Trump administration’s already unfastened interpretation of present legal guidelines, it is not laborious to think about how the unique intentions of the Take It Down Act could possibly be twisted.