The Danish government is promoting a bill to give citizens the right to own images and voices to deal with the abuse of AI-generated deepfake technology.
According to the draft, people will have the right to ask online platforms to remove content if they find their images or voices being illegally used.
Danish Culture Minister Jakob Engel- Schmidt believes that AI technology is developing far beyond the current legal framework and the new regulatory framework will help protect people, artists and influential people from the risk of identity forgery in the digital environment.
He emphasized that society cannot accept the situation of people being "digitally copyited" to serve many bad purposes. The bill is receiving widespread support from parliamentary parties.
The Danish government also plans to add sanctions for businesses that do not comply with the requirement to remove violating content after the law comes into effect.
Minister Engel- Schmidt affirmed that Denmark always respects freedom of speech, but emphasizes the right of individuals to control how their images and voices are used in technology products.
He also expressed his willingness to cooperate with technology corporations to build a legal corridor towards developing AI for the benefit of others, rather than letting technology become a threat to privacy and personal identity.
Experts say this is one of many policy initiatives being implemented in many countries to reduce the risks from generative AI technology.
Technology is improving, but legal space is making many people easily victims of forgery in cyberspace.
