Two men face federal charges under the TAKE IT DOWN Act for allegedly creating AI-generated explicit images without consent, marking one of the first prosecutions under the year-old law.

The TAKE IT DOWN Act requires platforms to remove deepfake porn within 48 hours, criminalizes non-consensual intimate imagery, and raises compliance questions for Web3.

A Brooklyn courthouse unsealed criminal complaints against two men who allegedly posted “thousands” of nonconsensual intimate AI deepfakes, according to the US Attorney’s Office.…