In an interview with The Harvard Gazette, Faculty Co-Director Rebecca Tushnet explains the legal difficulties that AI deepfakes present, given that their artificiality makes them different from 'revenge porn,' already outlawed. One of the difficulties she notes is that it isn't clear whether deepfakes fall under First Amendment protections. "We’re still in the process of thinking through exactly what should be required of a toolmaker. Right now, there’s certainly no law that even requires guardrails."