Melania Trump signs bill outlawing revenge, AI-generated porn alongside husband Donald

WASHINGTON — President Trump fto his woman Melania co-sign authorities Monday to outlaw artificial intelligence-generated porn pinch existent people’s faces — moments aft claiming that Russian president Vladimir Putin had gushed astir nan first woman during a high-stakes phone telephone astir nan Ukraine warfare .

“Putin conscionable said, they [Russians] respect your woman a lot,” said Trump earlier signing nan Take It Down Act during a Rose Garden ceremony. “I said, ‘What astir me?’ They for illustration Melania better.”

The Take It Down Act, which spurred nan first woman to make a uncommon travel to Capitol Hill to lobby lawmakers earlier this year, criminalizes nan distribution of non-consensual friendly imagery — including “revenge porn” that features existent images and artificial intelligence-generated photos and videos.

After Trump, 78, signed nan legislation, he passed nan measure and a pen to his woman and asked for her signature successful a reflection of her advocacy.

“She deserves to motion it,” nan president said, adding that “America is blessed to person specified a dedicated and compassionate first lady.”

Melania Trump is believed to beryllium nan first first woman to motion a portion of authorities alongside a sitting president.

“This authorities is simply a powerful measurement guardant successful our efforts to guarantee that each American, particularly young people, tin consciousness amended protected from their image aliases personality being abused,” said Melania Trump, 55.

“Artificial intelligence and societal media are nan integer candy for nan adjacent procreation — sweet, addictive and engineered to person an effect connected nan connectivity improvement of our children,” she added. “But dissimilar sugar, these caller technologies tin beryllium weaponized, style beliefs and sadly, impact emotions.”

“We’ve each heard astir heavy fakes. I person them each nan time, but cipher does anything,” said nan president during his remarks.

“I inquire [Attorney General] Pam [Bondi], ‘Can you thief me, Pam?’ She says, ‘No, I’m excessively busy, excessively engaged doing different things, don’t worry, you’ll survive.’ But a batch of group don’t survive.”

Ahead of Monday’s measure signing, 49 states had laws barring “revenge porn” connected nan books, pinch South Carolina nan lone exception.

The caller national rule passed nan House 409-2 and nan Senate by unanimous consent, becoming 1 of nan first pieces of authorities criminalizing aspects of AI.

Perpetrators look up to 2 years successful national situation if nan images characteristic an big aliases 3 years if they picture a minor.

Websites must region contented wrong 48 hours of notification that nan images violated nan law, pinch enforcement delegated to nan Federal Trade Commission.