ETtech Explainer: Wife by his side, Trump makes it a crime to share explicit images with Take It Down Act

US president Donald Trump on Monday signed the Take It Down Act into law during a ceremony at the White House Rose Garden, joined by First Lady Melania Trump. The law makes it a federal crime to share intimate or explicit images of a person without their consent, whether real or created using artificial intelligence.

“With the rise of AI image generation, countless women have been harassed with deepfakes and other explicit images distributed against their will,” Trump said while signing the bill, according to AFP. “And today we’re making it illegal……