Lawmakers passed the bill in a nearly unanimous vote.
Minnesota has advanced a bill to criminalize the sharing of sexual and political deepfakes — as lawmakers across the U.S. rush to combat the rise of artificial intelligence .
The bill would allow prosecutors to charge people with up to five years in prison and $10,000 in fines for disseminating deepfakes.“The concern I have is just the civil penalty. I want to see it higher,” Republican Sen. Nathan Wesenberg, of Little Falls explains on the Senate floor before voting against the bill.
But in the U.S., there is currently no federal legislation to protect against people’s images being used without their consent in deepfake porn or with any associated technology. “The Preventing Deepfakes of Imitate Images Act would make illegal the non-consensual sharing of altered or ‘deepfake’ intimate images online and create additional legal courses of action for those impacted,”“The spread of AI-generated and altered images can cause irrevocable emotional, financial, and reputational harm — and unfortunately, women are disproportionally impacted.”
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