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 (AI) technology called “deepfake.”
In a Bagong Pilipinas interview over PTV, CICC Chief, Undersecretary Renato “Aboy” 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.
“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 (TMC) has discovered that most deepfakes circulating in the country were created abroad and are most likely linked to organized criminal organizations.
