Sharing Fake Nude Images Could Become a Federal Crime Under Proposed Law

It may finally be a federal crime to share digitally-altered nude pictures of actual individuals.

Rep. Joseph Morelle (D., N.Y.) on Tuesday re-proposed the “Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act,” which might outlaw the nonconsensual sharing of digitally-altered intimate pictures. He had beforehand launched the invoice however has since added Rep. Tom Kean, a Republican from New Jersey, as a co-sponsor. Kean had launched a invoice in November known as the AI Labeling Act of 2023, which might require AI-generated content material to have clear labeling that identifies it as such.