Cybercrime body seeks stronger laws vs ‘deepfakes’
The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) on Friday called on lawmakers to come up with legislation against the creation, sharing, distribution or possession of pornographic materials made through artificial intelligence technology, called “deepfake.”
In a Bagong Pilipinas interview over PTV, CICC chief, Undersecretary Renato Paraiso said there is a “gap” that needs to be filled to enable law enforcement agencies to combat deepfake materials.
To date, he said, deepfakes can be considered “victim-less crimes” as it can be claimed they are animations based on fictional characters.
But in a Senate hearing on Thursday, a popular actress complained that she was a victim of deepfake pornography.
She was speaking at a Senate hearing on Bill No. 565 that seeks to amend Republic Act No. 11313 (Safe Spaces Act), and proposed Senate Resolution No. 67, or the Use of Artificial Intelligence Technology to Proliferate Deepfake Pornography.
The hearing was presided by Sen. Risa Hontiveros, chair of the committee on women, children, family relations and gender equality.
“The solution here is for us to create a law to prohibit the creation, manufacture, sharing, distribution, or possession of videos containing artificially recreated pornographic materials,” Paraiso said.
The CICC’s Threat Monitoring Center has discovered that most deepfakes circulating in the country were created abroad and are most likely linked to organized criminal organizations.
“We can see that the funds from scams, from illegal gambling, are being used to reinforce other forms of revenue from illegal online harms,” he said.
He said detecting deepfakes is harder than filtering content, such as illegal gambling or fake news, as deepfakes need to be analyzed in real-time instead of through automated tools.
