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NZ is criminalising sexualised deepfakes – banning apps that make them should be next

By Cassandra Mudgway, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury

New Zealand is changing the law to make sexualised deepfakes a crime. But this alone may not be enough to counter the rise in AI-generated fake sexual material.

This week the Deepfake Digital Harm and Exploitation Bill is set to go through its first reading, with support across the political spectrum. The amendment…

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