With AI sexual abuse on the rise, the White House is tapping Big Tech for support

The White House wants tech companies and civil society to take steps to curb image-based sexual abuse.

The Biden-Harris administration announced a call to action to curb such abuse, which disproportionately targets girls, women and LGBTQ+ people.

Such images have also garnered repeated headlines this year after spreading at schools.

AB 1831 seeks to prohibit child sex abuse deepfakes, while AB 2876 would require the state’s Instructional Quality Commission to consider incorporating AI literacy content into state mathematics, science, and history-social science curriculum standards when they’re up for revision next year .

Berman : Possessing or distributing such images online may result in perpetrators sexually exploiting minors offline.

The Biden-Harris administration is calling on tech companies to intervene because they can take action now.

Some tech companies have already offered their support to the White House’s effort to stop image-based sexual abuse.

“We are hearing that fear, among particularly young women on campus, about someone who can just take a picture of you from Instagram and use AI to superimpose it onto porn.