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Ferguson says US FTC needs more resources to enforce intimate deepfakes law, AI agenda

By Maria Dinzeo ( May 15, 2025, 20:42 GMT | Insight) -- The Federal Trade Commission will need new funding and technical infrastructure to enforce a pending federal ban on non-consensual AI-generated pornography, Chairman Andrew Ferguson told lawmakers today, warning that the agency’s investigators will be tasked with reviewing deeply disturbing material, including child sexual abuse imagery.Graphic intimate deepfakes are proliferating at an astounding rate, and the US Federal Trade Commission will need additional resources to enforce a new law criminalizing the creation and publication of non-consensual, AI-generated images, Chairman Andrew Ferguson told the House Appropriations Committee at a budget oversight hearing today....

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