Melania Trump’s first concentration problem is something on which everyone can get along

• Melania Trump supports a bill that aims to stop the nudes generated by AI.
• Deepfake Nudes is an increasing problem in schools that affect young people – especially girls.
• This is a perfect problem for the first lady to take up: he is bipartite and relevant.

Melania Trump appeared in a round table on Capitol Hill on Monday to support a bill that would address the question of non -consensual sexual images, in particular nudes defake.

This is a perfect problem for the first lady. It is bipartite – and it is something that everyone is suitable is horrible and a scourge for young people.

It also strikes an ideal point rare to maintain anti-tech and anti-ai feelings without hindering great technology. (In fact, large technological companies like Meta and Tiktok supported the bill.)

Non -consensual sexual images created with AI, or deepfake nudes, have exploded as a problem in secondary schools and even in colleges, where images are created to harass and shame the peers. This particularly affected young women, although they are also boys.

People have created sexualized images and videos of celebrities for years using photo writing software, but AI has made things much easier. There is “naked“The applications that do this with only a few taps. 404 Media reported how Instagram has struggled to eliminate advertisements for this type of applications, which are against Meta’s rules.

On Monday, Thorn, an organization that pleads against sexual abuse and online sexual exploitation, published a report based on his survey from 13 to 20 years: he said that a youngster in eight who replied that they personally knew someone who had been the victim of a deep naked image. These images, eclipses, put the true face of a victim on a body generated by AI.

“By carrying out a key legal gap, this bill criminalizes the known distribution of the intimate visual representations of minors – whether real or generated by AI – when they are shared with the intention of harming, harassing or exploiting,” said Emily Slifer, director of Thorn’s policy.

For people affected, these images can be devastating. The New York Times described the question an “epidemic” in a story about how IA images have wreaked havoc in suburban high schools and colleges. During the round table on Monday, several young women shared their experiences.

In the past, Melania Trump has rarely involved in the weeds of legislation, so putting her weight behind this bill sends a signal. Using its prominent position, it can put pressure for an action that will really make a difference.

The “Take It Down Act”, a bill presented by the Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, as well as a bipartisan group of Senators, including the Democrat Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota and the Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal de Connecticut, would have an edition in edition.

During the first presidency of Donald Trump, the First Lady launched a “Be Best” initiative, which aimed to stop online intimidation. At the time, the amorphous slogan and the fact that the president himself was no stranger to launch insults on social networks made a little punchline among some people.

But in the past two years, the effect of social media on the mental health of adolescents and the dangers of a “telephone childhood” have become problems in mind for parents and regulators. The timing for the return of Be Best is perfect.

“As First Lady, my commitment to Be Best Initiative underlines the importance of online security,” said Melania Trump during the round table with Cruz and others. “At a time when digital interactions are an integral part of everyday life, it is imperative that we protect children from mean and injuring online behavior.”

Cyberintimidation is actually quite complicated.

For social platforms, there is a tension between prohibiting people to be tremors online and maintain the values ​​of freedom of expression. The X of Elon Musk and now Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s platforms have both loosened policies around the words that some people, including me, would consider Odieu-like anti-trans insults.

But some things, of course, clearly should not be allowed – such as sexual children’s abuse, sexualized photos that are false or used without someone’s consent. It is logical for Melania Trump to say that out loud.