It could eventually be a federal crime to share digitally-altered nude images of real people.
Rep. Joseph Morelle (D., N.Y.) on Tuesday re-proposed the “Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act,” which would outlaw the nonconsensual sharing of digitally-altered intimate images. He had previously introduced the bill but has since added Rep. Tom Kean, a Republican from New Jersey, as a co-sponsor. Kean had introduced a bill in November called the AI Labeling Act of 2023, which would require AI-generated content to have clear labeling that identifies it as such.
The bipartisan move Tuesday comes in response to an incident at Westfield High School in New Jersey. Boys there were sharing AI-generated nude images of female classmates without their consent. When the girls found out, they reported it to school administrators, who referred to it in an email to parents as a “very serious incident.”
