{"id":1567,"date":"2024-05-24T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2025-11-08T11:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T16:51:50","slug":"white-house-fight-ai-enabled-sexual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"White House: Fight AI-Enabled Sexual Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/defiant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/robot1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/robot1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/robot1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/robot1.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/ostp\/news-updates\/2024\/05\/23\/a-call-to-action-to-combat-image-based-sexual-abuse\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">call to action<\/span><\/a>, the Biden administration is urging technology companies and other stakeholders to take voluntary measures to curb the rapidly growing issue of image-based sexual abuse, including abusive content generated using artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recognizing that this form of gender-based violence disproportionately harms women, girls and LGBTQI+ people, the White House is advocating for collaboration between the public and private sectors to prevent and mitigate these harms. Specifically, the administration is encouraging companies to make commitments such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Disrupting monetization by restricting payment services to sites enabling sexual abuse imagery, especially of minors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stopping creation by curbing web services and apps marketed for making non-consensual sexual images using AI<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Preventing distribution through technical protections against non-consensual image sharing on devices and platforms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Providing remedies by supporting services that enable survivors to remove abusive content from online platforms easily<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" src=\"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/defiant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https\u02d0waltercounsel.com\u02d0wp-admin\u02d0admin-ajax-e1754340703427.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2806\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The calls build on prior White House efforts like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2023\/03\/03\/executive-summary-initial-blueprint-for-the-white-house-task-force-to-address-online-harassment-and-abuse\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Task Force on Online Harassment<\/span><\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/ostp\/ai-bill-of-rights\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">AI Bill of Rights<\/span><\/a>, and voluntary AI ethics pledges made by leading tech firms. However, the administration stresses legislation is still needed, calling on Congress to strengthen legal protections and victim resources around image-based abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As AI capabilities rapidly advance, the White House aims to rally industry-wide cooperation to uphold safeguards and prevent egregious technological facilitation of sexual exploitation, &#8220;one of the fastest growing harmful uses of AI to-date.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new call to action, the Biden administration is urging technology companies and other stakeholders to take voluntary measures to curb the rapidly growing issue of image-based sexual abuse, including abusive content generated using artificial intelligence. Recognizing that this form of gender-based violence disproportionately harms women, girls and LGBTQI+ people, the White House is &#8230; <a title=\"White House: Fight AI-Enabled Sexual Abuse\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/?p=1567\" aria-label=\"Read more about White House: Fight AI-Enabled Sexual Abuse\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,72,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-government","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4567,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/4567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}