AI-generated porn, including celebrity fake nudes, persist on Etsy as deepfake laws 'lag behind'

Heritage Foundation tech policy director Kara Frederick joins'America's Newsroom' to discuss pornographic AI photos of Taylor Swift sparking conversations about deepfake regulation. Etsy, the online retailer known for providing a platform to sell hand-made and vintage products, continues to host sellers of "deepfake" pornographic images of celebrities and random women despite the company's efforts to clean up the site. The proliferation of sexually explicit images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) -- including depictions of celebrities -- on an otherwise innocuous marketplace comes as a shock to many experts. The problem has persisted on the platform for months. "That sounds like a total innocuous platform for people to do this. Usually we find a lot of explicit content on Twitter, or some other particular portals for that kind of materials," Siwei Lyu, a computer scientist and expert on machine learning and the detection of deepfakes, told Fox News Digital.