Lawyer Tasnim Mosen told "Dema": artificial intelligence images are subject to legal liability, and describing them as a "joke" does not exempt from liability.
Tesnim lawyer Mosen confirmed in an interview with the Duma News network that the lack of specific legislation for images created by artificial intelligence does not mean that they are outside the scope of legal responsibility, since the provisions of defamation, slander and electronic humiliation, or attacks on privacy and civil damages, depending on the content of the image and the circumstances of their use, may apply to them.
Muazzin explained that the Syrian Penal Code distinguishes between defamation related to a matter that harms honor or dignity, and defamation achieved through a phrase or drawing that implies contempt without a specific event, and noted that Law No. 20 of 2022 criminalized electronic defamation in section 24, and defamation achieved through defamation or contempt, where the electronic responsibility for defamation or contempt is in section 25. the content, and its context and not for the use of technology only.
I showed that not all satirical images are considered crimes, and the person's sense of guilt alone does not determine the criteria, since the criteria are affected by whether the image implies the commission of a shameful act, or misleads the public into looking real, or reveals private information, and the extent of its effect on reputation.
She noted that Section 21 of the Information Crimes Law punishes the publication of people's privacy without their consent, even if they are true, while Section 23 deals with taking photos without permission, which requires a distinction to be made between a photo composed of a real source that was taken without permission, and a completely artificial photo that was not decided in a special text, in addition to the process or their publication. threatens to do so.
A message is entered that the responsibility of the business parties is examined separately; The creator is responsible if he published the image or used it to insult or threaten, while its possession in private possession does not prove the offense of publication, while the publisher bears the responsibility of publishing it to the public according to his knowledge and content, and its return does not result in automatic conviction except in the examination of the civil role, which is added by the law and civil responsibility. when there are several perpetrators of harm.
She confirmed that the Civil Code allows anyone who was subjected to an illegal assault to request its termination and compensation based on Articles 164 and 223 for proven material, moral, professional and psychological damages.