Australia's First Deepfake Porn Prosecution

0:00It's April 15th. I'm Corey with The Story, and this is Sydney News Today, your AI-powered local news. Australia's made history with its first prosecution under the new 2024 federal laws, cracking down on deep fake porn. Nineteen-year-old William Hamish Yates, from Netherby, just pleaded guilty in Adelaide Magistrate's court, to two counts of creating or tweaking sexual. Images without consent. He also copped pleas to two counts of using online services to harass or offend, all between October 2024 and February 20th, 25th. These laws hid back at AI tricks that slap real faces onto fake porn videos with a max sentence of seven years in jail. They rolled out to stop the explosion of this nasty tech messing with people's lives. Prosecutors started with 20 charges, but pulled back to these four pleas. It's the only case of its kind. The federal team is running right now. Yates stays quiet as he heads to South Australia's District Court next month for sentencing,

1:01marking a big step in holding deep fake creators. Accountable.