President Trump signed a bill on Monday criminalizing the publication of nonconsensual sexually explicit "deepfake" images and videos online, marking the first major technology safety bill signed during his second term.

The president touted the bill as the "first ever federal law to combat the distribution of explicit imagery posted without subjects' consent."

"With the rise of AI image generation, countless women have been harassed with deepfakes and other explicit images distributed against their will," Trump said. "It's just so horribly wrong, and it's a very abusive situation, like in some cases, people have never seen before. And today, we're making it totally illegal."

The Take It Down Act makes it a crime for a person to knowingly publish computer-generated pornographic images and videos that depict real individuals.

It further requires websites to take down the........

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