Class action suit against AI makers over child deepfake abuse material expands

Multiple victims of child sexual abuse material creation report direct harm from non-consensual deepfake generation of themselves as minors.

In the long arc of technological progress, each new tool carries within it the shadow of its potential misuse — and now, in the courts of Echo Harbor and beyond, that shadow has taken a devastating form. A growing class action lawsuit against SpaceXAI and Stability AI alleges that the companies' image generation systems were used to create sexually explicit deepfake material depicting real people as children, without their consent. The case, expanding this week with new plaintiffs, asks a question as old as industry itself: when a maker's creation is turned toward harm, how far does the maker'

Class action suit against AI makers over child deepfake abuse material expands

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