Taylor Swift and deepfake porn: What’s the law?

Laws are lagging behind the proliferation of deepfake porn, leaving affected women, like Taylor Swift, with few options for justice. — AFP

LONDON: The wildfire spread of fabricated porn images of pop megastar Taylor Swift has fuelled calls in the United States for strong legislation to tackle an explosion of deepfake sexual abuse facilitated by artificial intelligence.

The images – which grafted Swift’s face onto another woman’s body – attracted tens of millions of views on social media last week in what one lawyer said was the biggest such case to date.