New Zealand MP shows AI-generated nude photo of herself in Parliament to push for deepfake laws
A New Zealand MP last month held up an AI-generated nude photo of herself in Parliament to show how easy it is to make fake explicit images and how damaging they can be.
Laura McClure, a member of the ACT Party, created the deepfake of herself in just a few minutes using a website she found through a simple Google search. The censored image was shown during a debate on 14 May.
“This image is a naked image of me, but it’s not real,” she told Parliament. “It took me less than five minutes to make a series of deepfakes of myself.”
Speaking later in a video on social media, she said: “I brought to the attention of all the other members of Parliament about how easy it is to do this and how much abuse and harm it is causing, particularly for our young Kiwis and more likely to be our young females.”
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