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New York authorities seize twelve celebrity deepfake websites
WIRED AI New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office seized 12 websites that targeted approximately 1,200 victims with harmful deepfake content.
Why it matters
This represents a major escalation in law enforcement's crackdown on non-consensual, AI-generated explicit imagery.
Latest brief · Oct 19, 2026