[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 121 (Thursday, July 25, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H4930-H4931]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               DRAWING ATTENTION TO DESTRUCTIVE DEEPFAKES

  (Mr. MORELLE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORELLE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to draw attention to the 
dangerous issue of deepfake pornography, which is incredibly 
destructive and can have life-altering impacts on its victims.
  Almost 96 percent of all deepfakes online are pornographic in nature, 
and nearly every single one targets women. It takes no special 
knowledge or technical expertise to create these images, and more women 
are being targeted each and every day, including high school students, 
young girls who

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should be worried about their homework, not whether a classmate is 
using their image to make an explicit video that has the potential to 
do serious and irreparable harm.
  Deepfakes are abhorrent, and I have introduced legislation to bring 
strong criminal and civil penalties against those who create them.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to join me in demonstrating our 
shared commitment to fighting the dangerous misuse of artificial 
intelligence.

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