South Carolina Social Media Regulation Act
South Carolina's H. 3431 (Act No. 96 of 2026) adds an Age-Appropriate Code Design chapter (S.C. Code Title 39, Chapter 80) for online services, including AI-based ones, meeting revenue or data thresholds and reasonably likely to be accessed by minors. They…
Enacts the "political artificial intelligence disclaimer (PAID) act"; requires political communications that use synthetic media to disclose that they were created with the assistance of artificial intelligence; requires committees that use synthetic media to maintain records of such usage.
New York's S 6638-B (2023-2024), the political artificial intelligence disclaimer (PAID) act, would have amended Election Law section 14-106 to require political communications produced by or including synthetic media to carry the statement "THIS POLITICAL…
Election Law - Actions to Influence an Election - Social Media Platform Algorithms and Bots Purchased by Foreign Nationals
Maryland's SB 697 (2026, third reader text) would have added Election Law section 13-251 presuming a social media platform made an independent expenditure if it knowingly and purposely changed its algorithm, without a legitimate business purpose or standard…
Child Exploitation Material - Civil and Criminal Actions (Safe Kids Act)
Maryland's HB 924 (2026, the Safe Kids Act, cross-filed with SB 989) would have let a parent or guardian sue an online platform that knowingly and intentionally distributes, or creates or develops, unlawful child exploitation material, and would have amended…
Prohibits the publication of a digital or physical newspaper, magazine, or periodical which was wholly or partially produced or edited through the use of artificial intelligence without significant human oversight.
New York's S 9542 (2023-2024) would have added General Business Law § 338 barring a digital or physical newspaper, magazine or periodical from publishing material wholly or partially produced or edited with AI without significant human oversight. It did not…
Relating To Publicity Rights.
Hawaii's House Bill 2607 (2026) would have amended the state's publicity-rights law, chapter 482P, by adding definitions of 'artificial intelligence' and 'artificial intelligence deepfake' and including AI deepfakes in the definition of a person's…
Encouraging The United States Congress To Pass The Nurture Originals, Foster Art, And Keep Entertainment Safe Act Of 2023 (no Fakes Act) And The No Artificial Intelligence Fake Replicas And Unauthorized Duplications Act Of 2024 (no Ai Fraud Act).
Hawaii's Senate Resolution 81 (2024) would have encouraged the U.S. Congress to pass the NO FAKES Act, the No AI FRAUD Act or similar legislation as a safeguard against the exploitation of artists, creative professionals and individuals by unfettered…
Online platforms required to provide information pertaining to algorithm use, design transparency and user choice required, civil penalties provided, and rulemaking authorized.
Minnesota's HF 3980 would have required online platforms doing business in Minnesota that use personal-data-based algorithmic recommender systems to publicly disclose each system's inputs and weights (grouped in quartiles), default to maximizing users'…
Information Technology Act Amendments
Utah's SB 131 requires paid election communications that contain AI-generated synthetic media to carry set disclosures. Audio must say "Contains content generated by AI." at the beginning and end; visuals must show a set AI label throughout the synthetic…
AN ACT relating to privacy protection.
Kentucky's HB 63 (2026 session) would have created a civil cause of action and a felony for disseminating a 'deep fake': realistic media that appears to show a person saying or doing something they did not, depends substantially on technical means, and lacks…
Relating to pornography access for minors
West Virginia's SB 498 (2026 regular session) would have added W. Va. Code 61-8A-6, requiring commercial adult websites (where sexually explicit material is more than 25% of content) to verify age with biometric facial recognition, a government-issued ID and…
Stop Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Deep Fake Media Act
West Virginia's SB 454 (2026 regular session) would have created the Stop Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Deep Fake Media Act (new W. Va. Code art. 61-3F), making it a crime to intentionally or knowingly distribute a deep fake of a person's face…
Stop Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Deep Fake Media Act
West Virginia's SB 170 (2025 regular session) would have created the Stop Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Deep Fake Media Act (new W. Va. Code art. 61-3F), making it a crime to intentionally or knowingly distribute a deep fake of a person's face…
Prohibiting the use of deep fake technology to influence an election
West Virginia's HB 4963 (2024 regular session, committee substitute) would have added Article 3F to Chapter 61 barring anyone from disseminating a deep fake, or agreeing to, within 90 days before an election, knowing or reasonably should know it is a deep…
Stop Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Deep Fake Media Act
West Virginia's SB 720 (2024 regular session) would have created the Stop Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Deep Fake Media Act (new W. Va. Code art. 61-3D), making it a crime to intentionally or knowingly distribute a deep fake of a person's face…
Prohibiting creation, production, distribution or possession of artificially generated child pornography
West Virginia's SB 741 (2024 regular session, committee substitute) would have added W. Va. Code 61-8C-12 making it a felony to knowingly and intentionally create, produce, distribute, or possess with intent to distribute an AI-created visual depiction of a…
Creating the protection against deep fakes act to provide a cause of action for damages arising from the use of generative artificial intelligence to create an image or likeness of another person without such person's consent for use in obscene material.
Not law. Kansas SB 525, the Protection Against Deep Fakes Act, would have let a person whose image or likeness is shown through synthetic media in published obscene material, without express written consent, sue the producer, promoter or intentional…
Sexual offenses.
Indiana treats AI-generated and digitally altered sexual images as 'intimate images' under both its civil nonconsensual-pornography law and its crime of distributing an intimate image. Distributing such an image of a person who has not consented, when the…
Establishes a cause of action for misuse of artificial intelligence
Louisiana's HB157 would have made it a violation of the state's identity-misappropriation law to use AI to generate an audiovisual work of a person's identity (name, voice, likeness or digital replica) for a commercial purpose without prior consent.…
Relating to explicit digital forgeries.
Not law. Oregon HB 2230 (2025), sponsored by Representative Osborne, would have made it a crime, with intent to harass, humiliate or injure, to create, possess, distribute or purchase a sexually explicit image digitally forged with software or AI to appear…
Relating to the unlawful dissemination of intimate images; declaring an emergency.
Not law. Oregon SB 414 (2025), sponsored by Senator Woods, would have extended the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to knowingly disclosing a computer-generated explicit likeness, made with software or AI and not reasonably…
Mississippians' Right to Name, Likeness and Voice Act; enact.
Mississippi's SB 2046 (2026), the "Mississippians' Right to Name, Likeness and Voice Act," would have created Miss. Code 75-101-1 to 75-101-13, giving every individual a property right in their name, likeness and voice, covering AI-created digital depictions…
A bill for an act relating to restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence, and creating a civil cause of action.
Iowa's HF 406 would require device companies and AI developers to disclose and get separate agreement before AI accesses private data on smart devices, let users uninstall preinstalled AI, and bar using AI to recreate a person's likeness without consent for…
Use of fabricated media in elections.
Indiana's SB 7 (2024) would have barred disseminating 'fabricated media' made with generative AI, or contracting to do so, fewer than 90 days before an election to injure a candidate or influence the outcome, when the person knows or reasonably should know…
Use of altered media in elections.
Indiana's HB 1283 (2024) would have barred anyone who finances a candidate communication from disseminating 'fabricated media' (altered recordings or generative-AI imitations made without consent) of a candidate in an election within 90 days, to injure the…
Eavesdropping, Peeping, and Voyeurism
South Carolina's H. 5394 (2023-24) would have amended Code 16-17-470 (eavesdropping, peeping and voyeurism) to increase penalties and to cover knowingly creating or altering images, audio, video or digital files with a generative adversarial network or other…
Deceptive and fraudulent deepfake media in elections
South Carolina's H. 4660 (2023-24) would have added Code 7-25-230 barring distribution, within ninety days of an election, of synthetic media the distributor knows or should know is a deceptive and fraudulent deepfake of a candidate on the ballot, unless it…
Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit images or videos using deep fake technology; increasing a criminal penalty.
Texas HB 1092 (2025), as introduced, would have made it an offense to knowingly produce or distribute by electronic means a deep fake image or video that appears to show a real person with intimate parts exposed or in sexual conduct, without that person's…
Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit images or videos using deep fake technology; increasing a criminal penalty.
Texas HB 387 (2025), as introduced, would have amended Penal Code Sec. 21.165 so that knowingly producing or distributing by electronic means a deep fake image or video that appears to show a real person with intimate parts exposed or in sexual conduct,…
Relating to the creation of certain explicit deep fake material; providing a private cause of action.
Texas HB 421 (2025), as engrossed, would have added Business & Commerce Code Chapter 121 requiring the owner of a deep fake generator (a website or app operating in Texas that lets users create deep fake material) to verify the age of the person apparently…
Relating to prohibiting the use of certain political advertising manipulated by generative artificial intelligence technology; creating a criminal offense.
Texas SB 228 (2025), as introduced, would have added Election Code Sec. 255.009 making it a Class B misdemeanor to cause political advertising to be published, distributed or broadcast when it includes an image, audio or video of an officeholder's or…
A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 12.1-31 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to prohibiting deepfake videos and images; and to provide a penalty.
North Dakota's HB 1320 (2025) would have created a new section of Century Code chapter 12.1-31 making it a class A misdemeanor to intentionally produce, possess, distribute, promote, advertise, sell, exhibit, broadcast or transmit a 'deepfake video or image'…
AN ACT relating to addictive online platforms.
Not law. As introduced, HB 227 would have regulated both AI companion platforms and large social media platforms in Kentucky: addictive features for minors, age verification, verifiable parental consent for children's accounts, a private right of action and…
Enacting the Kansas age-appropriate design code act to require businesses to assess and mitigate risks of compulsive use in minors; enacting the Kansas stopping likeness abuse by nonconsensual digital replicas act to create a private right of action for the unauthorized digital replication and…
Not law. HB 2772 would have enacted three Kansas acts. An Age-Appropriate Design Code Act would have required online businesses likely to be used by minors to assess designs for the risk of compulsive use, use the lowest-risk design by default, give minors…
Enacting the Kansas age-appropriate design code act to require businesses to assess and mitigate risks of compulsive use in minors, enacting the Kansas stopping likeness abuse by nonconsensual digital replicas act to create a private right of action for the unauthorized digital replication and…
Not law. SB 499, the Senate twin of HB 2772, would have enacted three Kansas acts. An Age-Appropriate Design Code Act would have required online businesses likely to be used by minors to assess designs for the risk of compulsive use, use the lowest-risk…
Regulates artificial intelligence in news media industry; establishes "Artificial Intelligence In Communications Oversight Committee."
New Jersey's A3307 would regulate AI in the news media. News entities could use AI to assist staff but not replace them, and generative AI content would need a prominent label, source credit and an accuracy disclaimer. Civil penalties would be $10,000,…
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2, Chapter 19, relative to the Transparency for Deepfakes in Political Advertising Act.
Tennessee's Transparency for Deepfakes in Political Advertising Act (Public Chapter 625) requires political ads that contain a deepfake of a candidate to say so. Audio impersonating a candidate must state at the start and end that it contains fake content;…
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2, Chapter 19, relative to the Transparency for Deepfakes in Political Advertising Act.
SB 1624 is the Senate companion of HB 1513, which became Tennessee Public Chapter 625 after the Senate passed the House bill in its place on March 12, 2026. The law requires political ads that contain a deepfake of a candidate to say so: audio must state at…
Updates certain crimes to include nonconsensual pornographic deepfake threats and disclosure.
New Jersey's S3551 would amend the criminal invasion of privacy law to cover deepfake images. Recording an actual or deepfake image of a person's exposed intimate parts or sexual activity without consent would be a third-degree crime, and disclosing a…
Stop Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Deep Fake Media Act
West Virginia's HB 5548 (2026 regular session) would have created the Stop Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Deep Fake Media Act (new W. Va. Code art. 61-3F), making it a crime to intentionally or knowingly distribute a deep fake of a person's face…
Relating to digital replication rights in the voice and visual likeness of individuals; providing private causes of action; authorizing a fee.
Texas SB 1960 (2025), as engrossed, would have added Business & Commerce Code Chapter 651 giving individuals a licensable property right in computer-generated digital replicas of their voice or visual likeness. Producing or publishing a replica without…
Relates to the right of publicity; amends the definitions of "deceased performer", "deceased personality" and "digital replica" in relation to the right of publicity; relates to the use of a deceased performer's digital replica without authorization by the applicable right holder.
New York's S 8391 amends the post-mortem right of publicity (Civil Rights Law § 50-f). Using a deceased performer's digital replica in an audiovisual work, sound recording or live musical performance without the rights holders' prior consent creates…
Election communications; prohibition; deep fakes
Arizona's SB 1515 (2024) would have added A.R.S. 16-1023, barring distribution within ninety days before an election of a synthetic media message that the distributor knows or should know is a deceptive and fraudulent deepfake of a candidate or political…
Deceptive and fraudulent deepfake media in elections
Not law. H 3517 would have barred anyone from distributing, within 90 days of an election, synthetic media they knew or should have known was a deceptive and fraudulent deepfake of a candidate on the ballot, unless it carried a disclosure that it was…
Requires advertisements to disclose the use of a synthetic performer
New York requires advertisers to disclose when an ad contains a synthetic performer: a digital asset created or modified with generative AI or software to look like a human performer who is not any identifiable real person. Anyone who produces or creates an…
Election crime; create for dissemination of a deep fake within 90 days of an election.
Mississippi's HB 1689 (2024), as passed the House, would make it a crime to disseminate a deep fake that the person knows or has reason to know is a deep fake, within 90 days of an election, without the depicted individual's consent and with intent to injure…
"Ensuring Likeness, Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act of 2025"; enact to expand protections against artificial intelligence deep fakes.
Mississippi's HB 768 (2025), the "Ensuring Likeness, Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act of 2025," would have given every individual, living or dead, a property right in the use of the individual's name, photograph, voice or likeness, with the stated…
Artificial intelligence disclosure statements.
North Dakota requires a disclaimer on political content made with AI to impersonate a person. Any communication or advertising for a political purpose (supporting or opposing a candidate, political committee or party, or an initiated or referred measure or…
Political campaign advertisements; synthetic media, penalty.
Vetoed. Virginia's SB 775 (2025) would have barred sponsoring an electioneering communication (a paid message naming a candidate, aimed at voters within 60 days of the election) containing synthetic media, meaning deceptively altered or AI-generated images…
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a person or entity from distributing an electoral deepfake within 90 days of an election that the person or entity knows or should have known is a deceptive and fraudulent depiction of a candidate or political party; creates civil penalties and outlines…
Tennessee's HB 2214 (114th General Assembly) would have barred a person, corporation, committee or other entity, within 90 days of an election, from distributing an electoral deepfake that it knows or should have known deceptively or fraudulently depicts a…
Personal rights: liability: social media platforms.
Vetoed. California's SB 771 would have made social media platforms with more than $100 million in yearly gross revenue liable for civil penalties when they violate state civil rights laws (Civil Code §§ 51.7, 51.9, 52 and 52.1) through algorithms that relay…
Companion chatbots.
California's SB 243 regulates companion chatbots, AI systems that give adaptive, human-like responses and can meet a user's social needs. Operators must disclose that the chatbot is AI if a reasonable person would be misled to think it is human, keep and…
California AI Transparency Act.
California's AB 853 amended the California AI Transparency Act (SB 942 of 2024), moving its operative date from January 1, 2026 to August 2, 2026. From January 1, 2027, large online platforms (over 2,000,000 monthly users) must detect provenance data, show…
Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024.
California's AB 2655, the Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024, requires large online platforms (1M+ California users) to remove reported deepfakes of candidates, elections officials and elected officials within 72 hours during set periods…
Political Reform Act of 1974: political advertisements: artificial intelligence.
California's AB 2355 adds Government Code § 84514 to the Political Reform Act. A committee that creates, originally publishes or originally distributes a political ad containing images, audio or video generated or substantially altered using AI must include,…
Use of likeness: digital replica.
California's AB 1836 amends Civil Code § 3344.1 (post-mortem publicity rights). Anyone who produces, distributes or makes available a digital replica of a deceased personality's voice or likeness in an expressive audiovisual work or sound recording without…
An Act To Amend Titles 10 And 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Deep Fakes.
Delaware's HB 353 (84 Del. Laws c. 479), the Amelia Kramer Act, extends Delaware's intimate-image laws to deep fakes, meaning realistic but false sexual images made with generative adversarial network techniques or other digital technology. An identifiable…
Elections: deceptive media in advertisements.
California's AB 502 rewrites Elections Code § 20012 on deceptive election deepfakes. No one may, with malice, knowingly distribute an ad or election communication with materially deceptive content (intentionally digitally created or altered media, such as…
"AI Image Disclosure Act"; concerns disclosure of certain AI-generated content.
New Jersey's A 5089, the AI Image Disclosure Act (as introduced), would require a covered provider of a publicly accessible generative AI system to put a manifest (clear and conspicuous) and a latent (not visible or audible) disclosure in AI-generated…
Relates to privacy rights involving digitization; provides that such right of privacy and action for injunction and damages shall include a portrait, picture, likeness or voice created or altered by digitization.
New York's A 3924 (the "right to your own image act") would amend Civil Rights Law §§ 50 and 51 so that using a person's name, portrait, picture, likeness or voice for advertising or trade without written consent covers one created or altered by…
Distribution Of Sensitive And Deepfake Images
New Mexico's HB 22 (2026) would have expanded the unauthorized-distribution-of-sensitive-images law (NMSA 30-37A-1) to cover 'sensitive deepfake images', meaning images created, altered or digitally manipulated to show a person's uncovered genitals, a…
Regards AI-generated products, AI-systems acting as humans
Ohio's HB 813 would add sections 1349.12 to 1349.16 requiring AI systems to be programmed to put a distinctive watermark on AI-generated products, barring public or commercial distribution of AI-generated products without one, and requiring anyone using an…
Elections: Voter Reg./legal Fund/comms
Alaska's HB 129 (2023-24) was a broad elections bill; its Senate version, SCS CSHB 129(FIN) am S, would have changed voter registration list maintenance and, per its title, addressed candidate legal funds, absentee and special needs voting, defamation claims…
ELEC CD-DECEPTIVE MATERIAL
Illinois's HB 1860 (104th General Assembly) would add Section 29-21 to the Election Code. A person could not distribute, or agree to distribute, materially deceptive media within 90 days before an election if the person knows it falsely represents a depicted…
Political communication; require to contain disclaimer if generated by artificial intelligence algorithms.
Mississippi's HB 1267 (2024) would require political communications generated in whole or in part by synthetic media using artificial intelligence algorithms to carry a clear and prominent disclaimer that they were generated using AI. It would add the same…
Relating to the unlawful dissemination of intimate images.
Oregon's HB 2299 amends the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image (ORS 163.472) so that "image" includes a digitally created, manipulated or altered depiction that is reasonably realistic, however stored. The crime applies when a person,…
Mississippians' Right to Name, Likeness and Voice Act; enact.
Mississippi's HB 1504 (2026), the Mississippians' Right to Name, Likeness and Voice Act, would give every individual, living or dead, a property right in their own name, likeness and voice, covering AI and other digital replicas. A person who, without…
To Prohibit Deceptive And Fraudulent Deepfakes In Election Communications.
Arkansas HB 1041 (2025), as engrossed, would have added Ark. Code § 7-6-106 to bar distributing, within 90 days before an election, synthetic media the person knows or should know is a deceptive and fraudulent deepfake of a candidate or party on the ballot,…
DIGITAL FORGERIES ACT
Illinois's HB 4763 (103rd General Assembly) would have created the Digital Forgeries Act. A person depicted in AI-made audio or visual material (a "digital forgery") would have a cause of action against anyone who, without consent, knowingly distributes it,…
CONSUMER FRAUD-AI DISCLOSURE
Illinois's HB 4869 (103rd General Assembly) would have added Section 2EEEE to the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. A person who, for a commercial purpose, makes, publishes or places an advertisement that the person knows or should have…
Artificial intelligence; require disclosure when used in political advertisements.
Mississippi's SB 2423 (2024) would have amended Miss. Code 23-15-897 to require a clear and conspicuous disclosure on "qualified political advertisements" that contain an image, audio or video generated in whole or in part with artificial intelligence and…
ELEC CD-AI ADVERT DISCLOSURE
Illinois's SB 2762 (103rd General Assembly) would have added Section 9-9.6 to the Election Code. A person, committee or other entity that creates, originally publishes or originally distributes a qualified political advertisement would have to include a…
PROTECTS VOICE & IMAGES
Illinois's SB 3248 (103rd General Assembly) would have created the No AI FRAUD Act, giving every individual a property right in their own likeness and voice, with a private cause of action against anyone who, without consent, distributes a personalized…
PUBLICITY ACT-USE OF AI
Illinois's SB 3325 (103rd General Assembly) would have amended the Right of Publicity Act to give recording artists additional enforcement rights and remedies, make liable anyone who materially contributes to, induces or facilitates a violation after having…
Relating to digital replication rights in the voice and visual likeness of individuals; providing private causes of action; authorizing a fee.
Texas HB 3950 (2025), as introduced, would have created a digital replication right in an individual's voice and visual likeness, and barred producing a digital replica or making one available to the public without the right holder's written consent. The…
Artificial intelligence.
California's AB 3050 (2023-24, as introduced) would have required the Department of Technology to set watermark standards, including digital content provenance, for covered AI-generated material (material that impersonates a specific individual or group or…
Digital Dignity Act.
California's SB 1142 (2025-26 Regular Session), the Digital Dignity Act, would have imposed specified liability on a person who distributes content with actual knowledge it uses a digital replica and is found guilty of a crime requiring false impersonation…
Income tax: credits: commercial production.
California's AB 2403 (2025-26 Regular Session) would have created a 20% or 30% income tax credit for qualified production costs above $500,000 for commercials produced in California, for taxable years from January 1, 2027 to before January 1, 2032. It would…
Political campaign advertisements; synthetic media, penalty.
Virginia's HB 982 (2026 Regular Session) would have barred electioneering communications containing synthetic media from being published or broadcast without a conspicuous statement that the message may present conduct or speech that did not occur, with a…
Artificial Intelligence Transparency Act; established.
Virginia's SB 1161 (2025 Regular Session) would have created the Artificial Intelligence Transparency Act, requiring developers of generative AI systems that produce audio, images, text or video to include a clear and conspicuous disclosure on AI-generated…
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a person or entity from distributing an electoral deepfake within 90 days of an election that the person or entity knows or should have known is a deceptive and fraudulent depiction of a candidate or political party; creates civil penalties and outlines…
Tennessee's SB 2321 (114th General Assembly) would have barred a person, corporation, committee or other entity, within 90 days of an election, from distributing an electoral deepfake that it knows or should have known deceptively or fraudulently depicts a…
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 47, Chapter 18, relative to synthetic media.
Tennessee's HB 2340 (113th General Assembly) would have let a person whose appearance, action, or speech is altered by synthetic media (made with AI or other digital technology), in a public communication knowingly distributed with intent to mislead the…
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 47, Chapter 18, relative to synthetic media.
Tennessee's SB 2460 (113th General Assembly) would have let a person whose appearance, action, or speech is altered by synthetic media (made with AI or other digital technology), in a public communication knowingly distributed with intent to mislead the…
Commerce and trade; require that AI generated content include a disclaimer indicating such content was generated using artificial intelligence
Georgia's HB 478 would add Code section 10-1-393.20 to the Fair Business Practices Act. On or after July 1, 2025, any individual disseminating AI-generated video, audio or still images to facilitate commerce or trade would have to ensure the content…
Creates regulations of artificially generated online content using artificial intelligence
Missouri's SB 1324 (Missouri Artificial Intelligence Transparency and Accountability Act) would require anyone creating AI-generated content for public consumption to label it "AI-generated", add a disclaimer and obtain consent for content depicting a real…
Creates provisions relating to synthetic media
Missouri's SB 1183 would add section 115.645 to bar a creator who uses AI or other digital technology from distributing, within eighteen weeks of an election, synthetic media the creator knows or should have known is a deceptive and fraudulent deepfake,…
Consumer protection; production of digital replicas of voice or visual likenesses, prohibited for commercial use unless licensed, procedures established, private right of action authorized
Alabama's HB 327, as introduced, would bar a person from intentionally publishing or making available to the public a digital replica of an individual's voice or visual likeness without the right holder's written consent, with listed exceptions. It would…
Artificial intelligence; prohibiting distribution of certain media and requiring certain disclosures. Effective date.
Oklahoma's SB 894 (Senate floor version) would bar any person or entity, within 90 days of an election, from creating or originally distributing synthetic media it has actual knowledge is a deepfake of a candidate or political party on the ballot, unless the…
Relative to civil actions regarding the prohibited use of synthetic media.
New Hampshire's HB 1710-FN would have created a civil action over misleading synthetic media (media made or modified with AI algorithms): distributing it of an identifiable person without consent, without a conspicuous notice, and with intent to mislead. It…
An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in sexual offenses, further providing for the offense of unlawful dissemination of intimate image; in minors, further providing for the offense of sexual abuse of children and for the offense of transmission of sexually explicit images by minor; and making editorial changes to replace references to the term "child pornography" with references to the term "child sexual abuse material."
Pennsylvania's Act 125 of 2024 brings AI-generated sexual images into the Crimes Code. Disseminating an artificially generated sexual depiction of a real person with intent to harass, annoy or alarm is now unlawful dissemination of an intimate image, and the…
Protecting kids from deepfakes and exploitative images.
Wyoming's AI deepfake and child-protection law (Chapter 91, Session Laws of 2026, effective July 1, 2026). It makes it a felony to knowingly distribute realistic AI-generated or digitally altered intimate images of an identifiable person without consent when…
An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in forgery and fraudulent practices, providing for the offense of digital forgery.
Pennsylvania's Act 35 of 2025 adds 18 Pa.C.S. 4101.1, digital forgery. A person commits it by generating or creating and distributing a "forged digital likeness" as genuine, knowing or having reason to know it is forged, with intent to defraud or injure…
An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation
Massachusetts Chapter 118 of the Acts of 2024 criminalizes non-consensual distribution of intimate images, including fabricated ones. Under G.L. c.265 s.43A(b), knowingly distributing visual material, including material produced by "digitization" (creating…
Modifies and establishes provisions relating to the protection of children and vulnerable persons
Missouri's 2026 HB 2273 (with HBs 1946, 1814 and 2551) creates RSMo 573.570, disclosure of an intimate digital depiction. Disclosing, or threatening to disclose, a realistic intimate image of an identifiable person that was created or altered by digital…
Regarding The Ownership Of Model Training And Content Generated By A Generative Artificial Intelligence Tool.
Arkansas Act 927 of 2025 sets who owns what a generative AI tool produces. The person who provides the input owns the generated content, as long as it doesn't infringe existing copyrights or other intellectual property, and owns a model trained with the tool…
Possession of child pornography and providing a penalty.
2023 Wisconsin Act 224 creates the crime of possession of virtual child pornography (s. 948.125). Receiving, distributing, producing, possessing or accessing obscene material, including a digital or computer-generated image, that contains a depiction of a…
Representations depicting nudity and providing a penalty.
2025 Wisconsin Act 34 adds deepfake intimate images to the state's representations-depicting-nudity law (s. 942.09). A "synthetic intimate representation" is a representation generated using technological means that uses an identifiable person's face,…
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS; AMENDING AND ENACTING SECTIONS OF THE CAMPAIGN REPORTING ACT BY ADDING DISCLAIMER REQUIREMENTS FOR ADVERTISEMENTS CONTAINING MATERIALLY DECEPTIVE MEDIA; CREATING THE CRIME OF DISTRIBUTING OR ENTERING INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH ANOTHER PERSON TO DISTRIBUTE MATERIALLY DECEPTIVE MEDIA; ADDING DEFINITIONS; PROVIDING PENALTIES.
New Mexico's HB 182 (Laws 2024, Chapter 57) amends the Campaign Reporting Act to address AI deepfakes. Campaign ads containing materially deceptive media (an image, video or audio produced in whole or in part with AI that shows someone saying or doing…
An Act to revise a provision related to criminal invasions of privacy, prohibit the creation and distribution of digitally fabricated material of an identifiable individual, and provide penalties therefor.
South Dakota's 2026 SB 41 amends the invasion-of-privacy law (SDCL 22-21-4) to cover deepfake intimate images. Knowingly and intentionally creating, disclosing, distributing or selling, without the person's consent and with intent to gratify, harass or cause…
An Act to revise provisions related to the possession, distribution, and manufacture of child pornography.
South Dakota's 2024 SB 79 covers AI-generated child sexual abuse material. It defines "computer-generated child pornography" to include an altered image of a real minor or adult and an individual indistinguishable from an actual minor created with artificial…
Disclosures regarding content generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
2023 Wisconsin Act 123 requires AI disclosures in political communications. Audio or video containing express advocacy, issue advocacy or support for or opposition to a referendum that contains synthetic media (audio or video substantially produced by…
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH SEXUAL EXTORTION OFFENSES, TO UPDATE OFFENSES RELATED TO SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR, TO UPDATE SEX OFFENDER AND PUBLIC PROTECTION REGISTRATION PROGRAMS, AND TO CLARIFY THE OFFENSE OF DISCLOSURE OF PRIVATE IMAGES.
North Carolina's S.L. 2024-37 (Modernize Sex Crimes) updates sex crime laws for AI. The definition of "material" for sexual exploitation of a minor now covers digital or computer-generated depictions created, adapted or modified by technological means such…
"New Jersey Kids Code Act"; adopts New Jersey Age-Appropriate Design Code and requires certain online service providers to implement certain measures concerning minors' use of online service.
New Jersey's A 4015 (P.L.2026, c.73), the New Jersey Age-Appropriate Design Code, covers online services that display user content and let account holders interact, are reasonably likely to be accessed by minors, and whose providers earn over $25 million a…
Relating To Deepfakes.
Hawaii's SB 1156 would have made it a misdemeanor to knowingly, and without the depicted person's consent, create or distribute a deepfake showing an individual nude or engaging in sexual conduct. The Senate committee on LBT deferred it February 7, 2025, it…
Requires publishers of books created wholly or partially with the use of generative artificial intelligence to disclose such use of generative artificial intelligence before the completion of such sale; applies to all printed and digital books consisting of text, pictures, audio, puzzles, games or…
New York's A 1509 would add General Business Law § 338 requiring any book wholly or partially created through generative artificial intelligence and published in New York to conspicuously disclose on its cover that it was created with the use of generative…
Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of possession, promotion, or production of certain obscene visual material appearing to depict a child.
Texas's SB 20 adds Penal Code § 43.235. It is a crime to knowingly possess, access with intent to view, or promote obscene visual material containing a depiction that appears to be of a child under 18 engaging in conduct described in the obscenity statute,…
Relating to the creation of artificial sexual material harmful to minors.
Texas's HB 581 extends the state's age verification law (Civil Practice and Remedies Code Chapter 129B) to AI-generated sexual material harmful to minors in which a real person is recognizable. A commercial entity whose website has a publicly accessible tool…
Relating to criminal and civil liability related to sexually explicit media and artificial intimate visual material; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.
Texas's SB 441 widens the Penal Code § 21.165 crime from deep fake videos to any deep fake media made or altered with AI or other technological means. Knowingly producing or distributing sexually explicit deep fake media of a person without signed written…
Relating to user reports of explicit deep fake material on social media platforms.
Texas's HB 3133 adds explicit deep fake material to the complaint system that large social media platforms (over 50 million monthly active U.S. users) must run under Business & Commerce Code Chapter 120. On notice of explicit deep fake material, a platform…
Consumer Protection - Online Products and Services - Data of Children (Maryland Kids Code)
Maryland's HB 603 (Kids Code) covers for-profit firms doing business in Maryland that have over $25M revenue, buy, receive, sell or share data of 50,000+ consumers, households or devices yearly, or get at least half their revenue from data sales. For online…
Artificial intelligence; disclosure of artificial intelligence-generated content required, enforcement provided
Alabama's SB 129 would require developers of generative AI systems that produce images, video or audiovisual content to include a clear, conspicuous and unavoidable disclosure that the content is AI-generated, plus metadata naming the tool and creation time,…
Relating To Artificial Intelligence.
Hawaii's HB 2357 HD 1 (2026) would have barred music streaming platforms from hosting, distributing or making available in the State music performed or attributed to an artificial intelligence music artist, a persona that is not a natural person, is created…
Georgia Entertainment Artificial Intelligence Accountability and Performer Protection Act; enact
Georgia's HB 1603, the Georgia Entertainment Artificial Intelligence Accountability and Performer Protection Act, would add Article 38 to Title 10, Chapter 1. It would make an individual or production company liable in a civil action for publishing or…
Ai, Deepfakes, Cybersecurity, Data Xfers
Alaska's SB 2 (2025-26) would have required a disclosure statement on election-related communications that include a deepfake, set rules for state agency use of generative AI in consequential decisions (inventory, impact assessments, notice, consent, appeal,…
Relating To Publicity Rights.
Hawaii's SB 2076 SD 1 (2026) would have amended the publicity rights law (HRS chapter 482P) by adding 'digital replica' and 'voice' definitions and including a digital replica in the definition of 'likeness'. A digital replica is a computer-generated, highly…
Secretary of Government Operations: deepfakes.
California's SB 1216 added Government Code § 11547.5. It directed the Secretary of Government Operations to evaluate, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the impact and risks of deepfakes and digital content forgery for government, California businesses…
Prohibiting the use of generative artificial intelligence to create false representations of candidates in election campaign media or of state officials.
Not law. Kansas SB 375 would have barred using synthetic media, meaning realistic but false images, audio or video made with generative AI or other digital technology, in election campaign communications to alter a candidate's appearance, action or speech,…
Synthetic Media: Liability; Elections
Alaska's SB 33 (2025-26) would have made a defamation action based on synthetic media a claim for defamation per se and barred a person from knowingly using synthetic media in an electioneering communication with intent to influence an election. A harmed…
Candidate Election Deepfake Disclosures
Colorado's HB 24-1147 bars anyone from distributing a communication about a candidate (including federal candidates and incumbents) with a deepfake to the candidate's electorate in the 60 days before a primary or 90 before a general election, if they know or…
An act relating to commerce; prohibiting access to nudification technology; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 325E.
Minnesota's Laws 2026, chapter 72 creates Minn. Stat. 325E.91, a ban on nudification technology. The owner or controller of a website, app, software, program or service may not let users nudify images or videos (alter or generate them to show intimate parts…
Judiciary, public safety, and corrections policy and finance bill (Laws 2025, chapter 35), including article 4, section 12 on child sexual abuse material created with generative artificial intelligence
Minnesota's 2025 judiciary and public safety omnibus (Laws 2025, chapter 35) brings AI-generated material into the state's child sexual abuse material laws. Article 4, section 12 amends Minn. Stat. 617.246, subd. 1: child sexual abuse material now includes…
Elections policy and finance bill (Laws 2024, chapter 112), including article 2, sections 63-64 and 76-78 amending the election deep fake crime (Minn. Stat. 609.771)
Minnesota's 2024 elections omnibus (Laws 2024, chapter 112) rewrites parts of the 2023 election deep fake crime, Minn. Stat. 609.771. Under article 2, section 76, disseminating a deep fake of a candidate without consent to injure the candidate or influence…
Concerning fabricated intimate or sexually explicit images and depictions.
Washington's Chapter 88, Laws of 2024 (SHB 1999) covers digitally fabricated sexual images, including those made with artificial intelligence. It adds "fabricated depiction of an identifiable minor" to chapter 9.68A RCW, so the child sexual exploitation…
Prohibiting the knowing distribution of a forged digital likeness.
Washington's Chapter 51, Laws of 2025 (SHB 1205) adds deepfakes to criminal impersonation. A forged digital likeness is a visual representation or audio recording of a real, identifiable person that is digitally created or altered to be indistinguishable…
Concerning sexually explicit depictions of minors.
Washington's Chapter 223, Laws of 2026 (2ESSB 5105) responds to AI-generated child sexual abuse material. It redefines "digitization" to include computer-generated images and alteration using artificial intelligence, and extends "fabricated depiction" to…
Concerning personality rights.
Washington's Chapter 69, Laws of 2026 (SSB 5886) extends the state's right of publicity (chapter 63.60 RCW) to forged digital likenesses: realistic visual representations or audio recordings of an identifiable person, digitally created or altered to be…
An act to impose civil liability and prescribe criminal penalties for the nonconsensual creation or dissemination of deep fake sexual images; and to provide for remedies.
Michigan's Public Act 11 of 2025, the protection from intimate deep fakes act, covers deep fakes: realistic images, video or audio whose production depends substantially on technical means rather than impersonation. A person shown in a deep fake depicting…
An Act to amend Part 3 of Article 3 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to invasion of privacy, so as to revise the prohibition on electronically transmitting or posting nude or sexually explicit photographs or videos for purposes of harassing the depicted person; to provide for an increased penalty for the electronic transmission or posting to a web page that is accessible to the general public; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Georgia's SB 78 toughens the law against sharing nude or sexually explicit images of an adult without consent, including falsely created videos or still images such as deepfakes. Under the revised O.C.G.A. 16-11-90, posting such an image to harass the person…
Crimes and offenses; grooming a minor for indecent purposes; provide for offense
Georgia's HB 993 closes a defense for digitally altered child sexual abuse images. A new subsection (b.2) of O.C.G.A. 16-12-100, the sexual exploitation of children law, says it is not a defense that a visual medium was created, adapted or modified to appear…
Removal of Altered Sexual Depictions Posted without Consent
Florida's CS/CS/HB 1161 (Chapter 2025-133), Brooke's Law, amends s. 836.13, F.S. Covered platforms (sites, services or apps that mainly host user content, or regularly make nonconsensual altered sexual depictions available) had to set up by December 31, 2025…
Sexual Offenses
Florida's CS/CS/HB 1159 (Chapter 2026-20) amends s. 827.072, F.S., on generated child sexual abuse material (computer-created or altered images of a fictitious person who appears to be a minor in sexual conduct). Intentionally creating it becomes a…
candidates; digital impersonation; injunctive relief (now: digital impersonation; injunctive relief; requirements)
Arizona's HB 2394 (Laws 2024, Ch. 193) adds A.R.S. 16-1023. A candidate on a state ballot, or any Arizona resident, may sue a person who publishes a "digital impersonation" of them without consent: synthetic video, audio or image made with deep generative or…
An Act amending sections 13-705 and 13-3551, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to sexual exploitation of children.
Arizona's HB 2678 (Laws 2025, Ch. 174) amends the definitions used for sexual exploitation of a minor (A.R.S. 13-3551). "Visual depiction" now covers images created or modified by computer software, artificial intelligence or other digital editing tools, and…
An Act relating to harassment by the dissemination, publishing, distribution, or posting of a visual depiction showing another person in a state of full or partial nudity or engaged in a sex act that has been altered to falsely depict another person, and making penalties applicable.
Iowa's 2024 Acts chapter 1065 (HF 2240) covers sexual deepfakes under the harassment law. Iowa Code 708.7(1)(a)(5) makes it harassment to disseminate, publish, distribute or post a visual depiction of another person in full or partial nudity or engaged in a…
An Act relating to sexual exploitation of a minor by the creation, adaptation, or modification of a visual depiction to give the appearance that an identifiable minor is engaged in a prohibited sexual act or the simulation of a prohibited sexual act, and making penalties applicable.
Iowa's 2024 Acts chapter 1015 (SF 2243) brings fabricated child sexual images into the sexual exploitation of a minor offense. Under Iowa Code 728.12(3), knowingly purchasing or possessing a visual depiction of a minor in a prohibited sexual act now includes…
AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ADDING SECTION 16-15-390 SO AS TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF OBSCENE VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE, DEFINE TERMS, AND ESTABLISH PENALTIES; BY AMENDING SECTION 23-3-430, RELATING TO THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY, SO AS TO ADD THE OFFENSE OF OBSCENE VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE TO THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY; AND BY AMENDING SECTION 23-3-462, RELATING TO TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS, SO AS TO MAKE CONFORMING CHANGES.
South Carolina's Act 57 of 2025 (S. 28, titled "AI Child Abuse" on the legislature's site) adds S.C. Code 16-15-390, obscene visual representations of child sexual abuse. A visual depiction includes computer-generated images, and it is not an element of the…
AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING SECTION 16-15-375, RELATING TO THE DEFINITIONS PERTAINING TO THE DISSEMINATION OF HARMFUL MATERIAL TO MINORS, SO AS TO DEFINE "IDENTIFIABLE MINOR" AND "MORPHED IMAGE"; BY AMENDING SECTION 16-15-395, RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF FIRST DEGREE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MINORS, SO AS TO INCLUDE MORPHED IMAGES OF IDENTIFIABLE MINORS; BY AMENDING SECTION 16-15-405, RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF SECOND DEGREE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MINORS, SO AS TO INCLUDE MORPHED IMAGES OF IDENTIFIABLE MINORS; BY AMENDING SECTION 16-15-410, RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF THIRD DEGREE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MINORS, SO AS TO INCLUDE MORPHED IMAGES OF IDENTIFIABLE MINORS; BY ADDING SECTION 16-15-412 SO AS TO PROVIDE PROCEDURES FOR ARREST WARRANTS WHEN THE OFFENSE INCLUDES MORPHED IMAGES OF IDENTIFIABLE MINORS; BY AMENDING SECTION 23-3-430, RELATING TO THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY, SO AS TO INCLUDE THOSE GUILTY OF CRIMINAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MINORS IN THE FIRST, SECOND, OR THIRD DEGREE ON THE APPROPRIATE TIERS OF THE REGISTRY; AND BY AMENDING SECTION 23-3-462, RELATING TO TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS, SO AS TO MAKE CONFORMING CHANGES.
South Carolina's Act 58 of 2025 (S. 29) targets digitally manipulated sexual images of real children. It defines "identifiable minor" and "morphed image" in S.C. Code 16-15-375: a visual depiction created, adapted or modified to appear that an identifiable…
AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy; prohibiting certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement; and related matters (L. 2025, ch. 120).
Kansas SB 186 (L. 2025, ch. 120) brings AI-made sexual images into the Kansas criminal code. Possessing an obscene "artificially generated visual depiction" of a child is now sexual exploitation of a child. Unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a…
An Act concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to sexual extortion; requiring the attorney general to prepare and provide educational materials and information concerning such crime; increasing the penalties for such crime when an offender is 18 years of age or older and the victim is less than 18 years of age or a dependent adult; creating the crimes of aggravated sexual extortion causing great bodily harm and aggravated sexual extortion causing death; amending K.S.A. 21-5515 and repealing the existing section.
Kansas HB 2537 (L. 2026, ch. 45, "Caleb's Law") rewrites the sexual extortion statute, K.S.A. 21-5515. The "image, video or other recording" used in a threat now expressly includes material created, altered or modified by artificial intelligence or any…
AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to release of persons prior to trial; authorizing electronic monitoring with victim notification; modifying the culpable mental state required to commit the crime of breach of privacy; modifying the elements of the crime of blackmail related to threatened dissemination of any image, video or other recording of another identifiable person who is nude or engaged in sexual activity; and related matters (L. 2026, ch. 114).
Kansas HB 2479 (L. 2026, ch. 114) is a criminal-law bill with an AI provision. Blackmail (K.S.A. 21-5428) now covers threatening to disseminate an image, video or other recording of an identifiable person who is nude or engaged in sexual activity, expressly…
AN ACT to amend and reenact subsection 13 of section 12.1-27.1-01 and section 12.1-27.1-03.3 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to sexually expressive images; and to provide a penalty.
North Dakota HB 1351 (2025) updates the law on sexually expressive images so it covers deepfakes. The definition in N.D.C.C. 12.1-27.1-01 now includes a "real, altered, or computer-generated" photograph or visual representation showing nudity or sexual…
AN ACT to amend and reenact sections 12.1-27.2-01 and 12.1-27.2-04.1 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to a prohibition on possessing certain computer-generated images; and to provide a penalty.
North Dakota HB 1386 (2025) covers AI-generated child sexual abuse material. N.D.C.C. 12.1-27.2-01 now defines a "computer-generated image" as one created through artificial intelligence or another computer program, and treats a computer-generated image made…
An act relating to the regulation of social media platforms and artificial intelligence systems
Vermont's H.365 (2025-2026 biennium) would have required operators of social media platforms and AI systems used by Vermont consumers to register annually with the Secretary of State ($100 fee) and meet product safety and privacy duties. AI providers would…
AN ACT relating to crimes; expanding certain prohibitions relating to pornography involving minors; revising the penalties for certain crimes relating to pornography involving minors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Nevada SB 263 makes AI-generated child sexual abuse material a crime. It defines "computer-generated child pornography" to include altered depictions of real children and visual representations created by artificial intelligence or other computer technology…
AN ACT to amend and reenact §61-2-13 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend the code by adding a new section, designated §61-8B-6, relating to extortion, attempted extortion, sexual extortion, and aggravated sexual extortion; defining terms; including a threat to any other thing of value for purposes qualifying extortion offense; increasing criminal penalties for extortion or attempted extortion by threats; creating crime of sexual extortion; establishing criminal penalties for sexual extortion; providing circuit courts optional dispositional conditions when minor adjudicated for a sexual extortion offense; creating crime of aggravated sexual extortion; establishing criminal penalties for aggravated sexual extortion; and providing for jurisdiction for prosecution of sexual extortion offenses in multiple counties.
SB 240 makes sexual extortion a felony in West Virginia: knowingly disclosing or threatening to disclose a private sexual image to coerce someone into giving more images, money or sexual acts. Because the new section defines 'image' to include a 'digital or…
An Act to Protect Children from Technology-facilitated Sexual Abuse
Maine's 2026 emergency law closes a gap that kept police from charging AI-generated child sexual abuse material. It redefines child sexual abuse material to include computer-generated images created or modified to appear to depict a minor, defines generative…
Ai, Deepfakes, Cybersecurity, Data Xfers
Alaska's SB 177 (2023-24), as the Senate State Affairs committee substitute CSSB 177(STA), would have required a disclosure statement on election-related communications that include a deepfake, set rules for state agency use of generative AI for…
Elections: offenses; penalties for distributing materially deceptive media; provide for, and provide procedure for enjoining materially deceptive media.
Michigan's Public Act 265 of 2023 adds section 932f to the election law. Within 90 days before an election, a person may not distribute, or agree to distribute, materially deceptive media (an image, audio or video produced by artificial intelligence that…
Digital Content Authenticity and Transparency Act; established, civil penalty.
Virginia's SB 1417 (2025 Regular Session) would have created the Digital Content Authenticity and Transparency Act, requiring generative AI developers to apply provenance data to synthetic content and offer a public provenance tool and reader, with Attorney…
CLEAR Act Copyright Labeling and Ethical AI Reporting Act
The federal S. 3813 (CLEAR Act, Copyright Labeling and Ethical AI Reporting Act) would require anyone who uses a training dataset to train or release a generative AI model to file a notice with the Register of Copyrights summarizing each copyrighted work in…
An Act amending section 13-1425, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to sexual offenses.
Arizona's SB 1462 (Laws 2025, Ch. 106) amends A.R.S. 13-1425, unlawful disclosure of images depicting nudity or sexual activities, to cover fabricated images. A "realistic pictorial representation" is an image created or modified to reasonably appear to be…
AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CRIMINAL OFFENSES RELATED TO POSSESSION OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL THAT DEPICTS A CHILD; TO INCLUDE A COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE THAT IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE IMAGE OF A CHILD; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Arkansas Act 977 of 2025 brings AI-generated child sexual abuse material under the state's child exploitation laws. "Computer generated" means produced, adapted or modified in whole or part using artificial intelligence; "indistinguishable" means an ordinary…
Crimes & offenses, prohibits a person from creating a private image without consent.
Alabama's HB 161 (Act 2024-96) amends Section 13A-6-240 to create the crime of knowingly creating, recording or altering an intimate image of an individual without consent where the person had a reasonable expectation of privacy. A private image now includes…
Crimes & offenses, provides criminal & civil penalties for distribution of materially deceptive media intended to influence an election.
Alabama's HB 172 (Act 2024-349) makes it a crime to distribute materially deceptive media (AI-produced image, audio or video falsely depicting a person's speech or conduct) within 90 days before an election when the distributor knows it is false and intends…
Relating To Elections.
Hawaii's SB 2687 (Act 191 of 2024) adds HRS 11-303 and a remedies section to the campaign law. From February of each even-numbered year through the general election, no one may recklessly distribute materially deceptive media (an ad falsely depicting…
Digitizations; create a criminal penalty for the wrongful dissemination of.
Mississippi's SB 2577 (Chapter 467, Laws of 2024) creates a crime of wrongful dissemination of digitizations: realistic images or audio altered or created with software, machine learning, AI or other computer-generated means (deepfakes) that a reasonable…
An act relating to miscellaneous judiciary procedures
Vermont's H.878 (Act 161 of 2024) is a judiciary omnibus. Its Sec. 45 amends 13 V.S.A. 2606, the crime of disclosing sexually explicit images without consent, so that a visual image includes a digital reproduction created or altered by digitization.…
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
Kentucky's HB 207 (2024 Ky. Acts Ch. 15) brings AI-generated child sexual abuse material under Kentucky's obscenity and child sexual performance laws. It defines computer-generated image and identifiable person in KRS 531.010 and adds computer-generated…
Provides for the Allen Toussaint Legacy Act.
Louisiana's SB 426 (Act 425 of 2022), the Allen Toussaint Legacy Act, gives each person a transferable property right in their identity, including name, voice, likeness and digital replica. A digital replica is a computer-generated reproduction of a…
Criminalizes deepfakes involving minors and defines the rights to digital image and likeness.
Louisiana's SB 175 (Act 457 of 2023) adds R.S. 14:73.13, the crime of unlawful deepfakes. Creating or possessing material that uses deepfake technology to depict a minor engaging in sexual conduct is punishable by 5 to 20 years at hard labor (five without…
Crimes & Offenses, raises max. age for offenses involving obscene materials with depictions of children, authorizes punitive damages for victims of those offenses, and directs Board of Ed. to require policies related to those offenses
Alabama's HB 168 (Act 2024-98), the Alabama Child Protection Act of 2024, extends the state's child sexual abuse material crimes to AI-generated content. CSAM now includes any visual depiction of a person under 18 engaged in sexually explicit conduct,…
DIGITAL FORGERIES ACT
The enacted version of HB 2123 amends the Civil Remedies for Nonconsensual Dissemination of Private Sexual Images Act (740 ILCS 190). "Sexual image" now covers images that falsely appear to show a person's intimate parts or sexual activity, and a depicted…
CIVIL LAW-TECH
This follow-up to Public Act 103-0294 amends the Civil Remedies for Nonconsensual Dissemination of Private Sexual Images Act (740 ILCS 190/5, 15). It defines a "digitally altered sexual image" as visual media created or substantially altered so that it would…
Establishes the right of publicity and provides for a private right of action for unlawful dissemination or publication of a sexually explicit depiction of an individual
Chapter 304 of 2020 adds Civil Rights Law 50-f, a post-mortem right of publicity. Using a deceased performer's digital replica (a realistic computer-generated performance) in a scripted audiovisual work or live musical performance without the rights holder's…
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state transportation, economic development and environmental conservation budget for the 2024-2025 state fiscal year
Chapter 58 of 2024 (FY2025 budget). Part MM, the artificial intelligence deceptive practices act, covers commercial use of a person's likeness or voice under Civil Rights Law 50-51 and extends the intimate-image actions in 52-b and 52-c to images created or…
Relates to requiring certain notice and disclosure regarding materially deceptive media in political communications
Chapter 169 of 2024 amends Election Law 14-106(5), the deceptive political media disclosure rule added weeks earlier by the FY2025 budget. Materially deceptive media is realistic content created or modified with software, machine learning or AI that depicts…
Provides for the registration and duties of model management companies; provides complaint procedures and penalties for violations
The Fashion Workers Act (Labor Law Article 36) includes protections against unauthorized digital replicas, defined as significant computer-generated or AI-enhanced representations of a model's face, body or voice. Model management companies and clients must…
Elections: deceptive audio or visual media.
AB 730 amended Elections Code 20010 and Code of Civil Procedure 35 to address election deepfakes. Until January 1, 2023 (later extended), no person or committee may distribute, with actual malice, materially deceptive audio or visual media of a candidate…
Depiction of individual using digital or electronic technology: sexually explicit material: cause of action.
AB 602 added Civil Code Section 1708.86, giving a depicted individual a private right of action against a person who creates and intentionally discloses sexually explicit material made through digitization (realistic computer-generated or altered depictions)…
Elections: deceptive audio or visual media.
AB 972 amended Elections Code Section 20010 and Code of Civil Procedure Section 35 to extend the 2019 election deepfake law (AB 730), which was set to expire January 1, 2023, to January 1, 2027. The extended provisions prohibit distributing, with actual…
Crimes: child pornography.
AB 1831 amended Penal Code Sections 311, 311.2, 311.11, and 311.12 so that obscene matter and child sexual abuse material offenses include matter that is digitally altered or generated by the use of artificial intelligence, as defined. It treats AI-generated…
Crimes: child pornography.
SB 1381 amended Penal Code Sections 311.1, 311.3, 311.4, and 312.3 to expand those child sexual exploitation and obscene matter offenses to include matter that is digitally altered or generated by the use of artificial intelligence. It is the companion to AB…
Crimes: distribution of intimate images.
SB 926 amended Penal Code Section 647 (disorderly conduct). It makes it a crime for a person 18 or older to intentionally create and distribute any photo realistic, digital, electronic, computer, or computer-generated image of an intimate body part or sexual…
Sexually explicit digital images.
SB 981 added Business and Professions Code Section 22670 and following. Social media platforms must provide California users a reasonably accessible mechanism to report sexually explicit digital identity theft, meaning the posting of an image or video…
Crimes: sexual exploitation of a child.
SB 1276 amended Penal Code Section 311.3 and Section 11165.1 of the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act. It broadens the definition of matter covered by the sexual exploitation of a child offense to include digitally altered or…
Elections: deceptive audio or visual media.
AB 686 amended Elections Code Section 20010 and Code of Civil Procedure Section 35 to extend the election deceptive media law (originally AB 730 of 2019, extended by AB 972 of 2022) from January 1, 2027 to January 1, 2031. The law prohibits distributing,…
Relating to the creation of a criminal offense for fabricating a deceptive video with intent to influence the outcome of an election.
Texas SB 751 (2019) was one of the first state deepfake election laws. It adds subsections to Election Code 255.004 making it an offense, with intent to injure a candidate or influence the result of an election, to create a deep fake video and cause it to be…
Relating to prosecution of certain criminal offenses prohibiting sexually explicit visual material involving children.
Texas HB 2700 (2023) brings AI-generated and AI-altered sexual images of real children within the state's child pornography and obscenity offenses. Covered material includes depictions of a child recognizable as an actual person by face, likeness or another…
Relating to the protection of minors from harmful, deceptive, or unfair trade practices in connection with the use of certain digital services and electronic devices, including the use and transfer of electronic devices to students by a public school.
Texas HB 18, the SCOPE Act (2023), sets duties for digital service providers toward known minors. Its AI-relevant part is Business & Commerce Code 509.056, 'Use of algorithms': a provider that uses algorithms to automate the suggestion, promotion or ranking…
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 47, relative to the protection of personal rights.
The ELVIS Act renames Tennessee's Personal Rights Protection Act and adds a property right in a person's voice, defined to cover a sound readily identifiable as a particular person 'regardless of whether the sound contains the actual voice or a simulation of…
Unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another; penalty.
Virginia's 2019 law closes a gap in the crime of maliciously disseminating or selling nude or partially nude images of another person with intent to coerce, harass or intimidate (Code 18.2-386.2, a Class 1 misdemeanor). 'Another person' now includes a person…
Unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another; penalty.
Virginia's 2019 law closes a gap in the crime of maliciously disseminating or selling nude or partially nude images of another person with intent to coerce, harass or intimidate (Code 18.2-386.2, a Class 1 misdemeanor). 'Another person' now includes a person…
Child pornography; production, publication, sale, financing, etc.
Virginia SB 731 (2024) expands the definition of child pornography in Code 18.2-374.1 to cover sexually explicit visual material that depicts a minor in a state of nudity or engaged in sexual conduct where the depiction is obscene, and states that for this…
Online-Facilitated Misconduct & Remote Tracking
Colorado SB 24-011 closes the deepfake gap in the state's offenses of posting a private intimate image for harassment or for pecuniary gain. New subsection (2.5) of C.R.S. 18-7-107 and 18-7-108 states it is not a defense that the image is partially digitally…
Concerning preventing certain disclosures of intimate depictions, and, in connection therewith, creating a cause of action for nonconsensual disclosure of an intimate digital depiction and adding and amending related provisions in criminal law.
Colorado SB 25-288 enacts the Preventing Unauthorized Disclosure of Intimate Digital Depictions Act. A digital depiction is a highly realistic image falsely appearing authentic that was created, altered or produced by generative AI, image editing software or…
Relating to Elections -- Deceptive and Fraudulent Synthetic Media in Election Communications
Rhode Island's 2025 election deepfake law (R.I. Gen. Laws ch. 17-30) bars candidates, campaign committees, PACs, party committees and independent spenders from distributing synthetic media they know or should know is deceptive and fraudulent within 90 days…
Relating to Elections -- Deceptive and Fraudulent Synthetic Media in Election Communications
Rhode Island's 2025 election deepfake law (R.I. Gen. Laws ch. 17-30) bars candidates, campaign committees, PACs, party committees and independent spenders from distributing synthetic media they know or should know is deceptive and fraudulent within 90 days…
Relating to Criminal Offenses -- Electronic Imaging Devices
Rhode Island's 2025 amendment to R.I. Gen. Laws 11-64-3 makes the crime of unauthorized dissemination of indecent material cover sexually explicit or intimate images of an identifiable adult, including any image created by a digital device or altered by…
Relating to Criminal Offenses -- Electronic Imaging Devices
Rhode Island's 2025 amendment to R.I. Gen. Laws 11-64-3 makes the crime of unauthorized dissemination of indecent material cover sexually explicit or intimate images of an identifiable adult, including any image created by a digital device or altered by…
Revenge Porn - Definition of Visual Representation and Civil Action
Maryland SB 360 (2025) redefines visual representation in the revenge porn statute, Criminal Law 3-809, to include an image created with or without other existing depictions of a person that is indistinguishable from the person to an ordinary observer,…
Intimate Image Distribution Prohibition
Utah HB 193 (2021) created the offense of unlawful distribution of a counterfeit intimate image. A counterfeit intimate image is any visual depiction, including a computer-generated one, edited, manipulated or altered to depict the likeness of an…
Artificial Pornographic Images Amendments
Utah HB 148 (2024) extends the state's sexual exploitation offenses to computer-generated video. It adds 'or video' to the computer or computer-generated image language in the definitions of child sexual abuse material, vulnerable adult sexual abuse…
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state transportation, economic development and environmental conservation budget for the 2026-2027 state fiscal year
Part Y of Chapter 58 of 2026 (FY2027 budget) enacts the Safe by Design Act (General Business Law Article 45-B). Operators of covered platforms may not offer an integrated AI companion without age assurance, must disable integrated AI companions by default…
Criminal Offense Amendments
Utah SB 66 (2024) amends the counterfeit intimate image offense in Utah Code 76-5b-205 so a counterfeit intimate image includes a depiction 'edited, manipulated, generated, or altered' to show the likeness of an identifiable person nude or in sexual conduct.…
Sexual Extortion Amendments
Utah HB 13 (2025) amends the crime of sexual extortion in Utah Code 76-5b-204 to include threatening to distribute a counterfeit intimate image, the term Utah law uses for computer-generated or manipulated depictions of an identifiable person nude or in…
Invasion of Privacy; prohibition against the transmission of photography depicting nudity; include falsely created videographic or still images
Georgia's SB 337 (Act 550 of 2020) brings fake intimate images into the state's nonconsensual pornography law. O.C.G.A. 16-11-90 already made it a crime to knowingly transmit or post, without consent, a photo or video showing an adult's nudity or sexually…
Sexual Images
Florida's CS/CS/HB 757 (Chapter 2025-99) extends s. 836.13, F.S., on altered sexual depictions (sexual deepfakes) to their creation. 'Generate' means creating or altering an image by computer or other means to portray an identifiable person, or offering or…
Establishes the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids act prohibiting the provision of addictive feeds to minors
New York's SAFE for Kids Act (Chapter 120 of 2024) adds GBL Article 45. An "addictive feed" is one in which user-generated media is recommended, selected or prioritized for a user based on information associated with the user or their device; the…
Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act.
California's SB 976 (Chapter 321 of 2024), the Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act, adds Health and Safety Code section 27000 and following. An "addictive feed" is one in which user-generated media is recommended, selected or prioritized for…
Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act (commerce omnibus, Laws 2024, chapter 114, article 3)
Minnesota's Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act, enacted in the 2024 commerce omnibus (Laws 2024, chapter 114, article 3, sections 63 to 67, now Minn. Stat. 325M.30 to 325M.34), requires social media platforms to publicly and conspicuously post how…
TO CREATE A PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION AGAINST A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM THAT CAUSES HARM; AND TO IMPOSE A CIVIL PENALTY ON A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM THAT KNOWINGLY AND WILLFULLY CONTRIBUTES TO A MINOR'S SUICIDE OR SUICIDE ATTEMPT.
Arkansas's SB 612 (Act 901 of 2025) adds Arkansas Code 4-88-1501 and following. A social media platform may not use a design, algorithm or feature that it knows, or should have known through reasonable care, causes a user to purchase a controlled substance,…
Social Media Amendments
Utah's HB 464 (Laws of Utah 2024, chapter 224) adds Utah Code 78B-3-1101 to -1103 on harm to minors from an "algorithmically curated social media service," one that drives engagement mainly through a curation algorithm (a process that personalizes which…
Contracts against public policy: personal or professional services: digital replicas.
AB 2602 added Labor Code Section 927. A provision in an agreement for personal or professional services is unenforceable as to new performances, fixed on or after January 1, 2025, by a digital replica of the individual if it allows the replica to be used in…
Adopt the Parental Rights in Social Media Act, rename the Child Pornography Prevention Act, and prohibit conduct involving computer-generated child pornography
Nebraska's LB 383 (2025) renames the Child Pornography Prevention Act the Child Sexual Abuse Material Prevention Act and covers AI-made images. Child sexual abuse material now includes an obscene depiction of a computer-generated person who is, or appears to…
Crimes and punishments; Oklahoma Law on Obscenity and Child Pornography; scope of certain unlawful act; definitions; effective date.
Oklahoma's HB 3642 (2024) widens the child pornography definition used across the state's obscenity and child pornography laws to cover fabricated images. It now includes any visual depiction of a child that has been adapted, altered or modified so the child…
CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN – Amends and adds to existing law to provide for the crime of visual representations of the sexual abuse of children and to revise provisions regarding the Internet Crimes Against Children Unit.
Idaho's H 465 (2024) targets AI-generated child sexual abuse material. New section 18-1507C makes it a felony, punishable by up to five years and a $5,000 fine, to knowingly produce, distribute, receive, possess or access an obscene visual depiction of a…
DISCLOSING EXPLICIT SYNTHETIC MEDIA – Adds to existing law to provide for the crime of disclosing explicit synthetic media.
Idaho's H 575 (2024) created the crime of disclosing explicit synthetic media in Idaho Code 18-6606. Synthetic media is an image or video created or altered with technical means, such as artificial intelligence, to realistically show an identifiable person…
Excludes a production using artificial intelligence or autonomous vehicles in a manner which results in the displacement of employees whose salaries are qualified expenses from the definition of qualified film for the purposes of the empire state film production credit.
New York's S 6751 would amend Tax Law § 24 so that a production using artificial intelligence or autonomous vehicles in a manner that results in the displacement of employees whose salaries are qualified expenses is not a "qualified film" for the Empire…
ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATIONS – Freedom From AI-Rigged (FAIR) Elections Act: relief and actions over synthetic media in electioneering communications
Idaho's H 664 (2024), the Freedom From AI-Rigged (FAIR) Elections Act, targets deepfakes in campaign ads. Synthetic media is audio or video of a person's speech or conduct created with generative adversarial network techniques or other digital technology so…
California AI Transparency Act.
California's SB 942, the California AI Transparency Act, as amended, requires anyone who produces a generative AI system publicly accessible in California to offer a free, public disclosure verification tool and, where technically feasible, embed…
Use of digitally altered media in elections
Indiana's HB 1133 (P.L. 81-2024) regulates deepfakes in campaign ads. Fabricated media includes undetectably altered recordings, lifelike artificially generated imitations of a person made without consent, and media of an artificially generated person. If a…
Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit videos using deep fake technology; creating a criminal offense.
Texas SB 1361 (2023) created Penal Code 21.165. It is a Class A misdemeanor to knowingly produce or distribute by electronic means, without the depicted person's effective consent, a deep fake video that appears to show the person with intimate parts exposed…
Education matters.
Indiana's HEA 1408 (P.L. 100-2026) is mostly an education bill, but Section 14 adds IC 24-16 on social media providers, defined in part as platforms that employ algorithms analyzing user data to select content for users. Providers must use commercially…
DEFIANCE Act of 2025 Disrupt Explicit Forged Images And Non-Consensual Edits Act of 2025
The federal S. 1837 (DEFIANCE Act of 2025) would let an identifiable individual sue over intimate digital forgeries: sexually intimate images made with software, machine learning or AI that are indistinguishable from authentic ones to a reasonable person.…
Generally revise laws related to crimes against children
Montana's HB 82 (Chapter 102 of 2025) brings AI-made child sexual abuse images into the offense of sexual abuse of children. Knowingly possessing computer-generated child pornography is now covered. That term means a visual depiction of a real minor altered…
Revise laws related to use of name, voice, and likeness of individuals and penalties for unauthorized use
Montana's HB 513 (Chapter 685 of 2025) gives Montana residents property rights in their name, voice and visual likeness that can be licensed, inherited and enforced for 20 years after death. Without consent, a person is liable for distributing an algorithm,…
Criminalize use of real and digitally fabricated sexually explicit images
Montana's HB 514 (Chapter 686 of 2025) extends the offense of violating privacy in communications to digitally fabricated intimate images. Digitally fabricated means created with technical means, such as artificial intelligence, to realistically show an…
An Act Concerning the State Budget for the Biennium Ending June 30, 2027, and Making Appropriations Therefor, and Provisions Related to Revenue and Other Items Implementing the State Budget
Section 261 of Connecticut's 2025 budget act (Public Act 25-168) creates the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate synthetically created image. A synthetically created image is a photo, video or other image not wholly recorded by a camera or partly…
An Act Establishing a Civil Action for the Office of the Attorney General and a Private Right of Action for Victims of Unlawful Dissemination of a Synthetically Created Intimate Image
Connecticut's HB 5312 (Public Act 26-55) adds civil remedies for AI-made intimate images. A person harmed by unlawful dissemination of a synthetically created intimate image may sue whoever knowingly shared it with intent to harm, for an injunction, damages…
Relative to prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of synthetic sexual images
New Hampshire's HB 1319 (Chapter 127 of 2024) extends the crime of nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images to synthetic images. A synthetic image is an image altered or created to depict a person in a realistic but false way. It is a class B…
Criminalizing and creating a private right of action for the facilitation, encouragement, offer, solicitation, or recommendation of certain acts or actions through a responsive generative communication to a child
New Hampshire's HB 143 (Chapter 270 of 2025) targets chatbots that steer children toward harm. The owner or operator of an AI chat program, chatbot, character AI or similar service whose sole purpose is open-ended generative conversation commits endangering…
Enacts the "political artificial intelligence disclaimer (PAID) act"; requires political communications that use synthetic media to disclose that they were created with the assistance of artificial intelligence; requires committees that use synthetic media to maintain records of such usage.
New York's S 2414, the political artificial intelligence disclaimer (PAID) act, would amend Election Law § 14-106 so political communications produced by or including synthetic media (media fully or partly created or modified by AI algorithms) carry the…
Criminalizing the creation of child intimate visual representations
New Hampshire's SB 300 (Chapter 259 of 2025) creates RSA 649-A:3-c, which makes it a class B felony to knowingly create, produce, manufacture or direct an intimate visual representation of a child for prurient purposes when the child can be identified from…
Social media platforms; requirements related to accounts for minors established
Minnesota's HF 4138 (Laws 2026, chapter 111) adds section 325M.40 on social media accounts of children under 16. Covered platforms must estimate account holders' ages and update the estimate every six months, or as often as they apply data analytics or…
Unlawful dissemination of an intimate image.
Wyoming's HB 85 (Chapter 85 of 2021) created the crime of unlawfully disseminating an intimate image, and its definition of image includes a computer generated image that purports to represent an identifiable person, so fake or AI-made intimate images count.…
An Act Regarding Artificial Intelligence in Campaign Advertising
Not law. Maine's LD 1690 would have required political communications using images, audio or video that have been materially manipulated or altered and contain 'synthetic media' to carry the statement 'THIS COMMUNICATION CONTAINS AUDIO, VIDEO AND/OR IMAGES…
Regulate artificial intelligence in media and political advertisements under the Nebraska Political Accountability and Disclosure Act
Not law. Nebraska LB1203 (2024), introduced by Senator John Cavanaugh, would have required a clear and conspicuous AI disclosure on paid political ads generated wholly or substantially by AI, and barred knowingly distributing materially deceptive AI media…
To protect against election misinformation
Massachusetts S2631 would bar distributing, with actual malice, a materially deceptive election-related communication within 90 days of an election, with injunctions and damages as remedies; it defines synthetic media as audio or video substantially produced…
Regulates artificial intelligence in news media industry; establishes "Artificial Intelligence In Communications Oversight Committee."
New Jersey's A5164 would regulate AI in the news media. News entities could use AI to assist staff but not replace them, and generative AI content would need a prominent label, source credit and an accuracy disclaimer. Civil penalties would be $10,000,…
A bill for an act relating to the use of synthetic media in campaign materials, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HSB 643.)
Iowa's HF 2609 (formerly HSB 643) would require published campaign material containing synthetic media (realistic but false digitally manipulated images, audio or video of a real person) to carry the words "THIS CONTENT GENERATED USING SYNTHETIC MEDIA." The…
Sexually Related Offenses
Florida's CS/CS/SB 1798 (Chapter 2022-212) created s. 836.13, F.S. An altered sexual depiction is an image modified by digital or other means to show a realistic identifiable person with another person's or computer-generated nude body parts, or in sexual…
Consumer protection: other; certain uses of automated programs to purchase event tickets online; prohibit. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4262'25
This bill prohibits the use of automated programs to purchase event tickets online. It is tie-barred with HB 4262'25, meaning its enactment depends on that bill.
Updates certain crimes to include nonconsensual pornographic deepfake threats and disclosure.
New Jersey's A2736 would add deepfake images to New Jersey's invasion-of-privacy and criminal coercion offenses. Knowingly reproducing an actual or deepfake intimate image without consent would be third-degree; disclosing a deepfake image based on another…
Prohibits and imposes criminal penalty on disclosure of certain intentionally deceptive audio or visual media within 90 days of election.
New Jersey's S2129 would make it a fourth-degree crime to knowingly or recklessly disclose, or to solicit, intentionally deceptive audio or visual media (deepfakes) within 90 days of an election with intent to deceive a voter with false information; a repeat…
Artificial Intelligence Transparency Act; established.
Virginia's HB 2554 (2025 Regular Session) would have created the Artificial Intelligence Transparency Act, requiring developers of generative AI systems that produce audio, images, text or video to include a clear and conspicuous disclosure on AI-generated…
Elections; criminal offense of election interference with a deep fake and solicitation; establish
Georgia's SB 392 (2023-2024 session) would have created the offense of election interference with a deep fake: creating, publishing, broadcasting, streaming or uploading a deep fake within 90 days of an election with intent to deceive electors in order to…
Distribution of False Sexual Imagery Prohibition Amendment Act of 2025
The District of Columbia's B26-0524, the Distribution of False Sexual Imagery Prohibition Amendment Act of 2025, would amend the Criminalization of Non-Consensual Pornography Act of 2014 to make it a misdemeanor (up to 180 days) to knowingly distribute a…
Relating To Artificial Intelligence.
Hawaii's HB 1734 (2024) would have required campaign advertisements containing an image, video or audio created wholly or partly with generative AI to include a clear and conspicuous disclosure, with format rules by media type (printed box for images, at…
Urges generative artificial intelligence and content sharing platforms to make voluntary commitments to prevent and remove harmful content.
New Jersey Assembly Resolution 141 urges platforms used to generate and disseminate deepfake and cheapfake media to commit voluntarily to preventing and removing harmful content, and has copies sent to the chief executives of leading AI and content-sharing…
Election Law - Influencing a Voter By Dissemination of a Deepfake - Prohibition
Maryland's HB 525 (2025, third reader) would have made it unlawful to influence or attempt to influence a voter's decision, with fraudulent intent, by disseminating a deepfake: a realistic but false depiction of a person (new Election Law section 16-905). A…
Election Law - Campaign Materials - Disclosure of Use of Synthetic Media
Maryland's HB 740 (2025) would have required candidates, campaign finance entities, certain registrants and their agents to include a disclosure when they distribute campaign material made with or containing synthetic media (an image, audio or video…
Relative to social media, algorithm accountability, and transparency
Massachusetts's S.51 (194th General Court) would create an Office of Social Media Transparency and Accountability under the Attorney General. Covered platforms (processing personal information of 100,000+ Massachusetts consumers, or 25,000+ with over 25% of…
Synthetic digital representations and providing a penalty.
Wisconsin's AB 855 (2025-26) would have created s. 942.085 making it a Class A misdemeanor to create and post, publish, distribute or exhibit a "synthetic digital representation" of an individual with intent to coerce, harass or intimidate, and a Class I…
Relative to prohibiting certain uses of deepfakes and creating a private claim of action
New Hampshire's HB 1432 (Chapter 243 of 2024) makes fraudulent use of deepfakes a class B felony. A deepfake is video, audio or other media in which a person's face, body or voice has been digitally altered so they appear to be someone else or to say or do…
Education for Filmmakers Pilot Program.
California's AB 2544 (2025-26 Regular Session), the Education for Filmmakers Pilot Program, would have required the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to run a pilot program delivering workforce-centered AI literacy instruction…
Establishes certain requirements for social media websites concerning content moderation practices; establishes cause of action against social media websites for violation of content moderation practices.
New Jersey's S861 would make it an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud Act for a social media website to fail to publish and consistently apply its censorship, suspension and "anonymous" ban standards, to notify users of such actions, and to let users…
Relates to the right of publicity; amends the definitions of "deceased performer", "deceased personality" and "digital replica" in relation to the right of publicity; relates to the use of a deceased performer's digital replica without authorization by the applicable right holder.
This bill amends New York's right of publicity law, focusing on definitions related to deceased performers and digital replicas. Analysis is limited without full bill text.
Certain online platforms requirement to provide information pertaining to algorithm use
Minnesota's SF 4380 would have required online platforms doing business in Minnesota that use personal-data-based algorithmic recommender systems to publicly disclose each system's inputs and weights (grouped in quartiles), default to maximizing users'…
Internet and E-mail Fraud; the criminal offense of digital identity fraud; establish
SB594 seeks to establish the criminal offense of digital identity fraud in Georgia, providing for criminal and civil penalties, a cause of action and damages, definitions, and repealing conflicting laws.
Establishes the NY digital choice act requiring social media companies to provide covered users with a copy of the covered user's social graph at the request of the covered user; defines terms; provides requirements for the interoperability of covered users' data; grants the attorney general the…
The NY Digital Choice Act mandates social media companies to provide users with their social graph upon request and outlines data interoperability requirements, granting the Attorney General rulemakin
Establishes the NY digital choice act requiring social media companies to provide covered users with a copy of the covered user's social graph at the request of the covered user; defines terms; provides requirements for the interoperability of covered users' data; grants the attorney general the…
The NY Digital Choice Act requires social media companies to provide users with their social graph upon request, with interoperability requirements and the New York Attorney General empowered to enfor
Artificial intelligence; requiring certain disclosure for certain media. Effective date.
Oklahoma's SB 746 (2025), by Sen. Seifried, would have required political advertisements, electioneering communications and other candidate or election media from a candidate, candidate committee, PAC or party committee to carry the disclosure "Created in…
An Act to prohibit the use of a deepfake to influence an election and to provide a penalty therefor.
South Dakota's 2025 SB 164 targets election deepfakes. A deepfake is an image, audio or video created or manipulated with AI or other digital technology so realistic that a reasonable person would believe it shows a real person's speech or conduct that did…
Political campaign advertisements; synthetic media, penalty.
Virginia's SB 141 (2026 Regular Session) would have required electioneering communications with synthetic media to carry a conspicuous statement, with a civil penalty up to $25,000 and a Class 1 misdemeanor for willful violations. It passed the Senate 34-4;…
ELEC CD-DECEPTIVE MATERIAL
Illinois's HB 3303 (104th General Assembly) would add Section 29-21 to the Election Code. A person could not distribute, or agree to distribute, materially deceptive media within 90 days before an election if the person knows it falsely represents a depicted…
Relating To Elections.
Hawaii's HB 1766 (2024, H.D. 1) would have barred distributing, within ninety days before a primary or general election, an advertisement containing a deceptive and fraudulent deepfake of a candidate that the person knew or should have known was one, unless…
AI Provenance Data Act
Illinois's SB 3263 (104th General Assembly) would create the Artificial Intelligence Provenance Data Act. Covered AI tool providers (over 1,000,000 monthly visitors worldwide or users on average, publicly accessible in Illinois, generating or editing audio,…
Digital Content Authenticity and Transparency Act; established, civil penalty.
Virginia's HB 2121 (2025 Regular Session) would have created the Digital Content Authenticity and Transparency Act, requiring generative AI developers to apply provenance data to synthetic content and offer a public provenance tool and reader, with Attorney…
Elec CD-AI Advert Disclosure
Illinois's SB 2996 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Election Code so that a qualified political advertisement generated in whole or substantially by AI must carry a clear and conspicuous statement saying so. It would provide exemptions and civil…
Unauthorized use of name, portrait, etc.; digital replica, civil liability, statute of limitations.
Virginia's HB 2462 (2025 Regular Session) would have amended Code § 8.01-40 to extend the suit for unauthorized use of a person's name, portrait or picture to voice and likeness, and created civil liability for unauthorized digital replicas in expressive…
PROVENANCE DATA REQUIREMENTS
Illinois's HB 4711 (104th General Assembly) would create the Provenance Data Requirements Act. A generative AI tool provider would have to apply provenance data, directly or through third-party technology, to wholly-generated synthetic content its tool…
PROVENANCE DATA REQUIREMENTS
Illinois's SB 1929 (104th General Assembly) would create the Provenance Data Requirements Act. A generative AI tool provider would have to apply provenance data, directly or through third-party technology, to wholly generated synthetic content from its tool,…
An Act enhancing disclosure requirements for synthetic media in political advertising
Massachusetts' H 5094, as reported by House Ways and Means, would require paid audio or video political communications that contain AI-generated synthetic media to say "contains content generated by AI" at the beginning and end and to carry an AI-generated…
Regards AI images, simulated child porn, replica identity fraud
Ohio's Sub. SB 163 passed the Senate on May 20, 2026 and was referred to the House Technology and Innovation Committee on May 27, 2026. As passed by the Senate it would require generative AI systems to put a visible watermark on generated images and video,…
Regards an individual's persona usage; prohibit certain deepfakes
Ohio's HB 185 would amend the right-of-publicity law (chapter 2741) on unauthorized use of an individual's persona, including a modified facsimile that a reasonable trier of fact would confuse with the individual, and add a new chapter 2742 on 'malicious…
AN ACT relating to data privacy.
Kentucky's HB 633, the Kentucky Kid's Code, would add duties to the Consumer Data Protection Act for large online services used by minors: highest-privacy defaults, controls over algorithmic feeds, limits on algorithmic recommendations linking adults and…
Relating to disclosures and penalties associated with use of synthetic media and artificial intelligence
West Virginia's SB 484 (2025 regular session, committee substitute) would have added W. Va. Code 3-8-12a barring anyone from distributing, or agreeing to distribute, AI-manipulated synthetic media of a person within 90 days before an election, knowing it is…
Relating To Elections.
Hawaii's Senate Bill 2396 (2024) would have barred anyone from distributing, within 90 days before a primary or general election, a synthetic media message in an electioneering communication that the person knows or should have known is a deceptive and…
Extends crime of identity theft to include fraudulent impersonation or false depiction by means of artificial intelligence or deepfake technology.
S 329 would expand New Jersey's identity theft crime to cover falsely depicting someone with a deepfake to gain a benefit or to injure or defraud them. A deepfake here is AI-generated or manipulated audio, video, speech or text that a reasonable person would…
Requires synthetic content creations system providers to include provenance data on certain content made available by the provider
Passed both houses; awaiting delivery to the Governor. S 6954-B, the Stop Deepfakes Act, would require providers of publicly available generative AI systems to attach provenance data (content credentials such as the C2PA standard) to AI-generated or…
Unauthorized Artificial Intelligence Impersonation Amendments
Utah's SB 271 extends the state's abuse-of-personal-identity law (Utah Code Title 45, Chapter 3) to AI. Personal identity now covers name, picture, video likeness, voice and audiovisual appearance, including recreations made with generative AI or digital…
Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act TAKE IT DOWN Act
The federal TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146) makes it a crime to knowingly publish online, in specified circumstances, nonconsensual intimate images of an identifiable person, including 'digital forgeries' made with software, machine learning or AI that look…
Establishes disclosure requirements for AI-generated or materially AI-altered media depicting historically recognized human disasters when such media is publicly distributed; requires platform operators to allow the use of labelling; provides for enforcement by the attorney general.
New York's A 10047 would add General Business Law Article 47-A (§§ 1710-1716) requiring a person who distributes AI-generated content depicting a “historically recognized human disaster” that the person knows is materially deceptive media to label it “THIS…
SEXUAL EXPLICIT DIGITAL IMAGE
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. New Section 11-20.4 (obscene depiction of a purported child) covers obscene depictions, including computer-generated images or video, that appear to show a child under 18 whether or not a real child is shown: receiving or…
Relating To Privacy.
Hawaii's SB 309 (Act 59 of 2021) adds sexual deep fakes to the felony of violation of privacy in the first degree (HRS § 711-1110.9). A person commits it by intentionally creating, disclosing or threatening to disclose an image or video of a composite…
An Act To Amend Title 15 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Deep Fakes In Elections.
Delaware's HB 316 (enacted as House Substitute 1, 84 Del. Laws c. 487) makes it a crime to distribute, or contract to distribute, a deep fake of a candidate or party within 90 days before an election without the depicted person's consent, if the person knows…
DIGITAL LIKENESS PROTECTION
Illinois' Public Act 103-0830 (HB 4762), the Digital Voice and Likeness Protection Act, makes a provision in an agreement for personal or professional services unenforceable if it allows a digital replica of the individual's voice or likeness to be created…
Artificial Intelligence and Children's Internet Safety Study Commission, created
Alabama's HJR 51, a joint resolution approved by the Governor as Act 2026-218, creates the Study Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Children's Internet Safety. Its 13 members include legislators from both chambers, the Attorney General, and appointees…
Criminalize disclosure of certain explicit AI-generated media
Montana's SB 413 (Chapter 606, 2025) creates the crime of disclosing explicit synthetic media (sexual deepfakes): knowingly or purposely disclosing it when the person knows or should know the identifiable person shown did not consent and would suffer…
To Amend The Frank Broyles Publicity Rights Protection Act Of 2016; And To Provide Protections For An Individual Whose Photograph, Voice, Or Likeness Is Reproduced Through Means Of Artificial Intelligence And Used Commercially.
Arkansas's HB 1071 (Act 159 of 2025) updates the Frank Broyles Publicity Rights Protection Act of 2016 to cover AI. "Likeness" now includes reproductions of a person's image generated through AI; "photograph" includes image, video or three-dimensional…
PUBLICITY ACT-USE OF AI
Illinois' Public Act 103-0836 (HB 4875) amends the Right of Publicity Act. A person may not knowingly distribute, transmit or make available to the general public a sound recording or audiovisual work with actual knowledge that it contains an unauthorized…
Establishes the crime of unlawful dissemination or publication of a fabricated photographic, videographic, or audio record as a class E felony.
New York's A 1280 would add Penal Law § 245.20, making it a class E felony to intentionally create and then disseminate or publish, without consent and with intent to cause harm to the liberty or emotional, social, financial or physical welfare of an…
Creates the crime of unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another created by artificial intelligence. (8/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
Louisiana's SB 6 (Act 142 of 2024) created the crime of unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another created by artificial intelligence (R.S. 14:73.14), making it unlawful for any person, "with the intent to coerce, harass, intimidate, or maliciously…
Election communications; deepfakes; prohibition
Arizona's SB 1359 adds A.R.S. § 16-1023. Within 90 days before an election in which a candidate is on the ballot, a creator may not create and distribute synthetic media that the person knows is a deceptive and fraudulent deepfake of that candidate unless it…
Resolve, Directing the Maine Arts Commission to Study Federal and National Efforts to Protect Artists from Copyright Infringement by Artificial Intelligence Companies and Users and to Monitor Educational Use
Maine's LD 109 is a resolve directing the Maine Arts Commission, consulting the Attorney General's office, to study federal and national efforts to protect artists from copyright infringement by businesses and others that promote, create, disseminate or use…
TRAIN Act Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks Act
The federal H.R. 7209 (TRAIN Act, Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks Act) would let copyright owners ask a federal court clerk for a subpoena requiring a generative AI model developer to disclose copies of, or records…
Prohibiting creation, production, distribution, or possession of artificially generated child pornography
West Virginia's SB 198 (2025) makes disclosing or threatening to disclose a "fabricated intimate image" of an identifiable person, made with AI or similar technology, with intent to harass, intimidate, threaten, humiliate, embarrass or coerce a misdemeanor…
Prohibits the creation and dissemination of synthetic media within sixty days of an election with intent to unduly influence the outcome of an election
New York's A 6491 would add Election Law § 17-172, making it a class E felony to create, with "intent to injure a candidate or unduly influence the outcome of an election," synthetic media (realistic AI-manipulated or artificial images, video or audio of a…
Provenance of Digital Content
Not law: died in committee. The committee substitute for Florida's SB 702 would have required online content purporting to feature an electoral candidate to carry provenance data if made with generative AI, and required generative AI providers to apply…
Artificial Intelligence Use in Political Advertising
Florida's HB 919 (s. 106.145, F.S.) requires political ads, electioneering communications and other political advertisements to prominently state "Created in whole or in part with the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI)." when they contain…
False advertising: synthetic performers.
California's SB 1050 (Bus. & Prof. Code § 17610) makes it unlawful to create and cause to be published an ad that prominently includes a synthetic performer without a clear and conspicuous disclosure, worded like "this performance features a synthetic…
Senate Study Committee on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence; create
Georgia's SR 789 is a Senate resolution, adopted 48-0 on March 31, 2026. As adopted, it creates the Senate Study Committee on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Creative Industries: five senators named by the President of the Senate, with majority- and…
Clarifies the right of publicity including the definitions of who and what qualifies as a digital replica; provides guidance as to digital replicas that do not violate an individual or deceased individual's right to publicity; expands the statute of limitations for an action brought for violating…
New York's A 8611 would amend Civil Rights Law § 50-f to define "digital replica" as a computer-generated "highly realistic electronic representation" readily identifiable as a person's voice or likeness. Producing, distributing or making available a…
Excludes a production using artificial intelligence or autonomous vehicles in a manner which results in the displacement of employees whose salaries are qualified expenses from the definition of qualified film for the purposes of the empire state film production credit.
New York's A 6180 would amend Tax Law § 24(b)(3) so that a production "which uses artificial intelligence or autonomous vehicles" in a manner that displaces employees whose salaries are qualified expenses is not a "qualified film" for the Empire State film…
Excludes a production using artificial intelligence or autonomous vehicles in a manner which results in the displacement of employees whose salaries are qualified expenses from the definition of qualified film for the purposes of the empire state film production credit.
New York's S 7422-B (2023-2024) would have amended Tax Law § 24 so a production is not a "qualified film" for the film production credit if it uses artificial intelligence or autonomous vehicles in a way that displaces employees whose salaries are qualified…
Relating to the crime of corrupt political advertising; regulating the use; of generative artificial intelligence; requiring disclosure that an image or speech has been manipulated ; making it a crime to create false representations of candidates in campaign media or of state officials; providing…
Not law. Kansas HB 2559, as amended by the House Elections Committee, would have barred using synthetic media (realistic but false media intentionally manipulated with generative AI) to alter a candidate's appearance, action or speech in election campaign…
Enacts the "New York artificial intelligence transparency for journalism act"; requires developers of generative artificial intelligence systems or services to post certain information on the developer's website regarding video, audio, text and data from a covered publication used to train the…
New York's S 8331-A, the New York artificial intelligence transparency for journalism act, would add General Business Law Article 21-A (§§ 338 to 338-D). On or before January 1, 2027, and before each later release or substantial modification, AI developers…
Requires advertisements to disclose the use of a synthetic performer; imposes a $1,000 civil penalty for a first violation and a $5,000 penalty for any subsequent violation.
New York's S 1228-C would amend General Business Law section 396-b. A person in the business of dealing in property or services who, for a commercial purpose and with actual knowledge, places an advertisement in any medium featuring a synthetic performer…
Requires that every newspaper, magazine or other publication printed or electronically published in this state, which contains the use of generative artificial intelligence or other information communication technology, shall identify that certain parts of such newspaper, magazine, or publication…
New York's S 6748 would add General Business Law § 338 requiring every newspaper, magazine or other publication printed or electronically published in the state that contains an article, periodical, photograph, video or other visual image wholly or partially…
Requires publishers of books created wholly or partially with the use of generative artificial intelligence to disclose such use of generative artificial intelligence before the completion of such sale; applies to all printed and digital books consisting of text, pictures, audio, puzzles, games or…
New York's S 1815 would add General Business Law § 338 requiring books wholly or partially created with generative AI and published in New York to conspicuously disclose that use on the cover. It covers all printed and digital books, including text,…
Creates penalties for likenesses altered or created by artificial intelligence being used for commercial gain; establishes a private right of action for the unlawful dissemination of still or video images generated by artificial intelligence.
New York's S 8721 would add Civil Rights Law § 50-h, barring use of a person's likeness altered or created by software, machine learning or AI for products, merchandise, advertising or solicitation without prior consent, with liability of the greater of…
Requires certain political communications to include provenance data for all audios, images or videos used in such communications; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon the expiration thereof.
New York's S 7963 would add subdivision 8 to Election Law § 14-106 (the "election content accountability act"). Starting with the 2030 election cycle, campaigns for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General or Comptroller would have to apply provenance…
Prohibits the use of biometric surveillance system or biometric surveillance information in places of public accommodation; prohibits entering into any agreement that authorizes any third party to use any biometric surveillance system or biometric surveillance information; provides penalties for…
New York's S 8004 would add Civil Rights Law § 40-h making it unlawful for an owner, franchisor, franchisee or other operator of a place or provider of public accommodation to use any biometric surveillance system or its information, or let a third party do…
Prohibits and imposes criminal penalty on disclosure of certain intentionally deceptive audio or visual media within 90 days of election.
New Jersey's A3585 would make it a fourth-degree crime to knowingly or recklessly disclose, or to solicit, intentionally deceptive audio or visual media (deepfakes) within 90 days of an election with intent to deceive a voter with false information; a repeat…
ELEC CD-DECEPTION OR FORGERY
Illinois's SB 2983 (103rd General Assembly) would have amended Election Code Sections 29-4 and 29-18 so that "deception or forgery" in the offenses of preventing voting or candidate support, and conspiracy to do so, includes creating and distributing an…
Political campaign advertisements; synthetic media, penalty.
Virginia's HB 868 (2026 Regular Session) would bar electioneering communications containing synthetic media from being published or broadcast without a conspicuous statement that the message contains synthetic media that may present conduct or speech that…
Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment by means of electronic or digital communication; provides for a private right of action for the unlawful dissemination or publication of deep fakes, which are digitized images which are altered to incorporate a person's face or their identifiable body…
New York's A 6293 would add Penal Law § 240.80, a class A misdemeanor for producing, distributing, publishing or broadcasting a "deep fake" (an altered image depicting a lewd sex act or graphic violence, published without written permission) with intent to…
Prohibit Use of Personally Identifying Feature
Colorado's HB26-1049 would have made it a crime to use another person's fingerprint, voiceprint, retina or iris scan, or facial map in an advertisement, deepfake, image, video, voice recording, or other digital depiction without permission: a class 5 felony,…
An Act Concerning Unlawful Dissemination Of Intimate Images That Are Digitally Altered Or Created Through The Use Of Artificial Intelligence.
Connecticut's HB 5045 (2025) was a proposed bill to amend titles 53 and 53a of the general statutes to criminalize the unauthorized creation and distribution of digitally manipulated intimate images, with a statement of purpose to criminalize nonconsensual…
Constitutional amendment proposal excluding artificial intelligence from the right to free speech
Minnesota's SF 4114 would have put to voters a constitutional amendment adding a sentence to article I, section 3 stating that the constitutional right to freely speak, write and publish does not apply to artificial intelligence, at the 2026 general…
Platform Accountability and Transparency Act
The federal Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (S. 3292) would require large social media platforms to give vetted outside researchers access to data and to publish transparency reports, including on their recommender and ranking algorithms.…
Deepfake Liability Act
The Deepfake Liability Act (H.R. 6334) would amend Section 230 of the Communications Act and the TAKE IT DOWN Act. Section 230(c)(1) protection would apply only to platforms that run a reasonable process against cyberstalking and intimate privacy violations,…
An act relating to artificial intelligence and elections
Vermont's H.846 (2026) is a short-form bill that, per its statement of purpose, would have addressed artificial intelligence and elections. High-traffic online platforms would have had to block materially deceptive election content and label inauthentic or…
AN ACT relating to privacy protection.
Kentucky's HB 21 (2025 session) would have created a civil cause of action and a felony for disseminating a 'deep fake': realistic media appearing to show a person saying or doing something they did not, lacking adequate labeling and produced substantially…
Requires disclosure of social media posts that are paid for by a campaign; authorizes the state board of elections to promulgate certain regulations.
New York's A 3929-B would amend Election Law § 14-106 so campaign-paid social media posts would have to carry the "Paid for by" disclosure and are not exempt as small digital media, and would require anyone who distributes political communications containing…
Enacts the "Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for all act"; requires a setting which allows a social media user to turn off algorithmic recommendations and other notifications; prohibits the use of dark patterns to subvert choice or inhibit users from accessing certain mechanisms.
New York's A 6974 (the "stop addictive feeds exploitation (safe) for all act") would add General Business Law Art. 45-A. Operators of addictive social media platforms would have to let New York users turn off algorithmic recommendations, turn off feed…
Elections: deceptive media in advertisements.
California's AB 2839 (Elections Code 20012) bars knowingly distributing, with malice, an ad or election communication with materially deceptive content about candidates, elected or elections officials, or election equipment, from 120 days before an election…
Requiring a disclosure of deceptive artificial intelligence usage in political advertising.
New Hampshire's HB 1596 adds RSA 664:14-c. Within 90 days of an election, no person or entity may distribute a message created with AI or generative AI that it knows or should have known is a deepfake of a candidate, election official or party on the ballot,…
An act relating to public safety; establishing a cause of action for nonconsensual dissemination of deep fake sexual images; establishing the crime of using deep fake technology to influence an election; establishing a crime for nonconsensual dissemination of deep fake sexual images
Minnesota's HF 1370 (Chapter 58) creates a civil claim (Minn. Stat. 604.32) and a crime (617.262) for disseminating without consent a deep fake that realistically depicts an identifiable person's intimate parts or sexual acts, and a crime (609.771) for…
To protect against election misinformation
Massachusetts S44 would bar distributing, with actual malice, a materially deceptive election-related communication within 90 days of an election, with injunctions and damages as remedies; it defines synthetic media as audio or video substantially produced…
Generative artificial intelligence: training data: copyrighted materials.
California's AB 412 (2025-26 Regular Session) would add Civil Code Title 15.3 requiring a developer of a generative AI model to provide a website mechanism for rights owners to request information on use of their covered materials. Within 30 days of a…
A bill for an act relating to the ownership of artificial intelligence output and trained artificial intelligence. (Formerly HSB 635.)
Iowa's HF 2691 (formerly HSB 635) would create Code chapter 554J making the user whose input prompts an AI the owner of the resulting output, unless the AI's terms of use or a contract says otherwise, and making a person who lawfully trains an AI the owner…
Enhancing disclosure requirements for synthetic media in political advertising
Massachusetts H846 would require paid audio or video political communications that contain synthetic media (content substantially produced by generative AI) to carry AI disclosure labels at the beginning and end and throughout the synthetic portions, with…
California Digital Content Provenance Standards.
California's AB 3211 (Wicks), the California Digital Content Provenance Standards, would require generative AI providers to apply hard-to-remove provenance data to synthetic content and offer a detection tool, recording devices to offer provenance options,…
A bill for an act relating to the publication of electioneering communications containing synthetic media, and providing penalties.
Iowa's SF 2166 would prohibit knowingly or recklessly publishing an electioneering communication containing AI-manipulated synthetic media within 90 days of an election unless it carries a required AI disclaimer. Civil penalties are up to $1,000 for a first…
A bill for an act relating to restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence, and creating a civil cause of action.
Iowa's HF 2082 would bar using artificial intelligence to intentionally recreate a person's audio or visual likeness without consent when the likeness is meant to be nearly indistinguishable from the person and is used commercially, in a political campaign…
A bill for an act relating to the use of synthetic media in campaign materials, and making penalties applicable.
Iowa's SSB 3039 (proposed by the Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board) would require published campaign material containing synthetic media (realistic but false manipulated images, audio or video) to prominently include the words "THIS CONTENT GENERATED…
Deepfake recordings or images
Vetoed. Arizona's SB 1336 (2024) would have added A.R.S. § 13-3508, making it a crime to intentionally disseminate a deepfake recording or image that realistically depicts an identifiable person's intimate parts (real or generated by synthetic media) or the…
Regulates how certain large social media platforms utilize algorithms.
Rhode Island H 7954 (2026), the Digital Platform Transparency and Democratic Integrity Act as introduced on February 27, 2026, would require covered platforms (more than one million monthly active users nationally that let users create profiles and share…
Synthetic digital representations and providing a penalty.
Wisconsin's SB 815 would have created s. 942.085, making it a Class A misdemeanor to create and post, publish, distribute or exhibit a deepfake (a synthetic digital representation of an individual's recognizable face, voice or likeness that looks authentic…
Georgia Likeness, Expression, Generative AI, and Commercial Yield (LEGACY) Act; enact
Georgia's HB 1399 (2026), the Georgia Likeness, Expression, Generative AI, and Commercial Yield (LEGACY) Act, would have given every individual a property right in their likeness and required the individual's written consent to create, distribute or exploit…
AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- INTERNET ACCESS AND ADVERTISING BY FACSIMILE
Rhode Island H 7543 (2026), as introduced on February 6, 2026, would add section 6-47-2.1 requiring any video, image or photograph generated by artificial intelligence that is posted on a public platform, and is created in or viewable in Rhode Island, to…
NO FAKES Act of 2025; enact
Georgia's HB 566 (NO FAKES Act) would add a new Article 38 to Title 10, Chapter 1, giving each individual or right holder the right to authorize use of the individual's voice or visual likeness in a digital replica. The right would be a property right, not…
Informing users when content is developed or modified by artificial intelligence.
Washington's AI content provenance law (Chapter 167, Laws of 2026, effective February 1, 2027). Providers of generative AI systems with more than 1,000,000 monthly users that are publicly available in Washington must, where commercially and technically…
Relative to prohibiting the unlawful distribution of misleading synthetic media.
New Hampshire's HB 1500-FN would have made it a class A misdemeanor to purposely distribute synthetic media (media created or modified with artificial intelligence algorithms) of an identifiable person without consent and without a conspicuous…
PROTECT IMAGE-VOICE-LOOKS
Illinois's HB 5594 (103rd General Assembly) would have created the NO FAKES Act, giving each individual (and after death their heirs) a descendible, licensable property right to authorize use of their image, voice or visual likeness in a digital replica,…
DIGITAL PROTECT-USE OF REPLICA
Illinois' Public Act 104-0282 (HB 3178) narrows Section 10 of the Digital Voice and Likeness Protection Act, which makes unenforceable a services-contract provision letting a digital replica of a person's voice or likeness replace work they would have done…
Urges generative artificial intelligence and content sharing platforms to make voluntary commitments to prevent and remove harmful content.
New Jersey's AR101 is a resolution that does not change the law. It would urge generative AI and content sharing platforms to voluntarily commit to preventing and removing harmful deepfake and cheapfake content, and direct the Clerk to send copies to the…
Prohibits deepfake pornography and imposes criminal and civil penalties for non-consensual disclosure.
New Jersey's S1159 would add 'deceptive audio or visual media' (deepfakes) to the State's invasion-of-privacy law, making it a third-degree crime, with a fine of up to $30,000, to disclose such intimate media of a person without consent, knowing one is not…
Prohibits creation or disclosure of deceptive audio or visual media, known as "deepfakes," under certain circumstances.
New Jersey's S3305 would make it a fourth-degree crime to create deceptive audio or visual media (deepfakes) without license or privilege for an unlawful purpose, and a third-degree crime to disclose such media without clearly identifying it as deceptive,…
Provides civil penalties for campaign advertisements containing "deepfake" misrepresentations of candidates.
New Jersey's A4163 would make a covered person liable for fraudulent misrepresentation of a candidate if they knowingly and intentionally disseminate a campaign advertisement containing a deepfake of that candidate, unless it carries a prescribed disclosure…
Prohibits deepfake pornography and imposes criminal and civil penalties for non-consensual disclosure.
New Jersey's A1359 would add 'deceptive audio or visual media' (deepfakes) to the State's invasion-of-privacy law, making it a third-degree crime, with a fine of up to $30,000, to disclose such intimate media of a person without consent, knowing one is not…
Updates certain crimes to include nonconsensual pornographic deepfake threats and disclosure.
New Jersey's S3303 would amend the invasion of privacy and criminal coercion laws to cover deepfakes. Knowingly reproducing, without license or privilege, an actual or deepfake image of another person's exposed intimate parts or sexual activity without…
Relating To Journalism.
Hawaii's SB 1618 (2025) would have created a journalistic code of ethics for news media outlets, administered by a Journalistic Ethics Commission within DCCA. Journalists, editors and outlets would have to prominently label AI-generated or AI-manipulated…
"AI Likeness Protection Act"; concerns distributing realistic representation of individual's image, likeness, or voice created using generative artificial intelligence.
New Jersey's A5088, the AI Likeness Protection Act, would require a person to get consent from an individual (or a minor's parent or guardian) before publishing or distributing a highly realistic generative-AI representation of that person's voice or…
Urging the Congress of the United States to amend 17 U.S.C. §§ 102 and 107 to protect creative workers against displacement by artificial intelligence technology.
Pennsylvania's HR 81 (2025-26) is a House resolution, so it would not change the law. It would urge Congress to amend 17 U.S.C. 102 and 107 to protect creative workers from displacement by AI, including making only majority human-made work copyrightable and…
Enacts the "Shirley Myers White Right To Reconciliation and Digital Identity Repair Act"; establishes a right for individuals to have outdated, inaccurate, or incomplete public and digital narratives corrected once a legal matter is resolved; requires institutions to provide mechanisms for context…
New York's A 10909, the "Shirley Myers White Right To Reconciliation and Digital Identity Repair Act," would add Executive Law § 296-e giving individuals a right to have outdated, inaccurate or incomplete narratives corrected after a legal matter is…
ELECT CODE-DEEP FAKE VIDEO
Illinois' SB 3171 (101st General Assembly, 2019-2020) would have added Section 29-21 to the Election Code. A person would commit a Class A misdemeanor by creating a deep fake video, with intent to injure a candidate or influence the result of an election,…
Updates certain crimes to include nonconsensual pornographic deepfake threats and disclosure.
New Jersey's A4435 would amend the criminal invasion of privacy law to cover deepfake images. Recording an actual or deepfake image of a person's exposed intimate parts or sexual activity without consent would be a third-degree crime, and disclosing a…
Election Law - Influence on a Voter's Voting Decision By Use of Fraud - Prohibition
Maryland's SB 361 (2025, third reader text) would have added to the election law ban on influencing a voter's decision by force, threat or bribery a ban on doing so through fraud, with fraud including the use of synthetic media: an image, audio or video…
Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act
The federal H.R. 8479 (Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act) would have NIST set up task forces on standards for identifying AI-generated content and require generative AI application providers to embed a machine-readable disclosure in audio or visual…
AI Impersonation Prevention Act of 2025
The federal H.R. 4628 (AI Impersonation Prevention Act of 2025) would amend 18 U.S.C. 912 to make it a crime to knowingly use AI to impersonate an officer or employee of the United States, including by mimicking a federal officer's voice or likeness without…
Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act
The federal S. 1213 (Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act) would add Section 325 to the Federal Election Campaign Act to bar any person, committee or entity from knowingly distributing materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media of a federal…
Ending FCC Meddling in Our Elections Act
The federal H.R. 9913 (Ending FCC Meddling in Our Elections Act) would have barred the FCC from finalizing or enforcing its proposed rule on disclosure of AI-generated content in political ads (FCC 24-74, MB Docket No. 24-211, adopted July 10, 2024), or any…
REAL Political Advertisements Act Require the Exposure of AI–Led Political Advertisements Act
The federal H.R. 3044 (REAL Political Advertisements Act) would have required political ads covered by FECA section 318(a) that contain image or video footage generated in whole or in part with generative AI to carry a clear and conspicuous statement saying…
Requires advertisements to disclose the use of a synthetic performer; imposes a $1,000 civil penalty for a first violation and a $5,000 penalty for any subsequent violation.
New York's A 606-B would have amended General Business Law § 396-b to require a person in the business of dealing in property or services who places a commercial advertisement to conspicuously disclose a synthetic performer in it, where the person has actual…
Crimes and punishments; creating and disseminating a digitization or synthetic media; making certain acts unlawful; emergency.
Not law. The committee substitute for HB 3299 would have made it a misdemeanor in Oklahoma (up to 1 year and $1,000) to create and disseminate synthetic media of another person's name, image, voice or likeness without written consent and with intent to…
AN ACT relating to privacy protection.
Kentucky's HB 45 (2024 session) was a privacy bill covering automated license plate readers (data kept no more than 30 days with exceptions, no sale), drone surveillance, deep fakes, identification devices and tracking devices. The deep fake sections would…
Excludes a production using artificial intelligence or autonomous vehicles in a manner which results in the displacement of employees whose salaries are qualified expenses from the definition of qualified film for the purposes of the empire state film production credit.
New York's A 7634-B would have amended Tax Law § 24(b)(3) to exclude from the "qualified film" definition for the Empire State film production credit a production using artificial intelligence or autonomous vehicles in a manner that displaces employees whose…
Enacts the "New York artificial intelligence transparency for journalism act"; requires developers of generative artificial intelligence systems or services to post certain information on the developer's website regarding video, audio, text and data from a covered publication used to train the…
New York's A 8595-B, the "New York artificial intelligence transparency for journalism act," would add General Business Law §§ 338 to 338-D. By January 1, 2027, generative AI developers serving New Yorkers would have to post the URLs crawled, a description…
Prohibits political communication containing any photo, video or audio depiction of a candidate created in whole or in part through the use of generative artificial intelligence.
New York's A 9054 (2023-2024 session), the "respect electoral audiovisual legitimacy (REAL) act," would have added subdivision 2-a to Election Law § 14-106 providing that no political communication covered by that section "shall contain any realistic photo,…
AN ACT relating to the protection of children using the internet.
Kentucky's SB 345 (2024 session) would have required businesses that knowingly process children's personal information to protect children (under 18) online. Before offering new online services likely to be accessed by children, they would have had to…
Consumer Protection – Online Products and Services – Data of Children (Maryland Kids Code)
Maryland's SB 571 (Kids Code) covers for-profit firms doing business in Maryland that have over $25M revenue, buy, receive, sell or share data of 50,000+ consumers, households or devices yearly, or get at least half their revenue from data sales. For online…
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to unlawful images.
Tennessee's HB 433 (114th General Assembly) would have expanded the offense of unlawful exposure to cover distributing, with intent to cause emotional distress, an intimate or sexually explicit image of an identifiable person that was created or modified…
Condemning antisemitism in all its forms, including the proliferation and amplification of antisemitic content on artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, urging robust, transparent safeguards for AI, and recognizing stakeholders working to counter this threat.
The federal H.Res. 963 is a simple House resolution that would not change the law. It would condemn antisemitism in all its forms, including its amplification through AI and social media platforms, state that technology companies bear a responsibility to…
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (deepfake and machine-manipulated media provisions, Division E secs. 5709 and 5724)
The FY2020 NDAA's intelligence division contains the first federal deepfake provisions. Section 5709 requires the Director of National Intelligence to report on foreign capabilities to produce machine-manipulated media and machine-generated text, and to…
Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit media using deep fake technology.
Vetoed. Texas's HB 449 would have widened the Penal Code § 21.165 crime from deep fake videos to any deep fake media: a visual depiction made or altered with software, machine learning, AI or other technological means that appears to a reasonable person to…
Election Law – Campaign Materials – Disclosure of Use of Synthetic Media
Maryland's HB 872 (2024) would have required candidates, campaign finance entities, certain registrants and their agents to include a disclosure when they distribute campaign material made with or containing synthetic media (an image, audio or video…
Algorithmic Transparency and Choice Act
The federal H.R. 6253 (Algorithmic Transparency and Choice Act) would require, beginning 1 year after enactment, providers of online platforms that use personalized recommendation systems to give minors under 18 a clear notice of the system, detailed…
Deepfake pornography.
California's AB 621 rewrites Civil Code § 1708.86, the civil claim over sexually explicit deepfakes. A depicted person can sue anyone who creates and intentionally discloses, or intentionally discloses, digitized sexually explicit material (including images)…
AN ACT relating to crimes; expanding the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to include certain acts relating to the distribution of certain photorealistic images, digital images, computer images and computer-generated images; providing an exception to the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image for persons who are less than 18 years of age; revising the definition of "intimate image"; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Nevada SB 213 brings AI deepfake nudes within the intimate-image law. "Intimate image" now includes photorealistic, digital, computer and computer-generated images that a reasonable person would believe show an identifiable person nude or in sexual conduct,…
Interim study to examine changes to state law regarding the use of artificial intelligence in political campaigns
Not a law. Nebraska LR412 (2024), introduced by Senator John Cavanaugh, is an interim study resolution that designated the Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee to study changes to state law on artificial intelligence in political campaigns,…
ELECTIONS/CAMPAIGNS: Requires disclosure of the use of artificial intelligence in telephone campaign communications
Louisiana's Act 559 requires a disclosure on campaign phone calls that use an AI-generated voice of a public figure. A telephone or automated call advocating for or against a candidate, elected official or ballot proposition that is created with AI using the…
AI/Ban Deceptive Ads
North Carolina's HB 375 would create the Artificial Intelligence and Synthetic Media Act (new Chapter 170). It would regulate deceptive deepfakes in elections, make generated child pornography and non-consensual fabricated intimate images crimes, and require…
Protections for Youth on Social Media
Colorado's HB 26-1148 as introduced would add minor-protection duties for online gaming businesses (default privacy settings, an account-deletion tool, limits on using a minor's data to recommend media, a 5% fee on minors' add-on purchases) and would require…
Requires the owner, licensee or operator of a visual or audio generative artificial intelligence system to take steps to prohibit its users from creating unauthorized realistic depictions of public officials.
New York's A 10652 would have added General Business Law § 390-f requiring the owner, licensee or operator of a visual or audio generative AI system accessible to New York residents to implement a reasonable method to prohibit users from creating…
Relating to criminalizing the use of deep fakes
West Virginia's HB 5516 (2024 regular session, committee substitute) would have made it a crime to knowingly and intentionally disclose, or threaten to disclose, an image showing a person's intimate parts or sexually explicit conduct (including a deep fake)…
Urges Congress to enact "Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act."
New Jersey's SR104 is a Senate resolution that urges Congress to enact the 'Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act' (H.R. 3106). It is a resolution that does not change the law. The resolution cites deepfake intimate images, an increase in deepfake…
Encouraging The United States Congress To Pass The Nurture Originals, Foster Art, And Keep Entertainment Safe Act Of 2023 (no Fakes Act) And The No Artificial Intelligence Fake Replicas And Unauthorized Duplications Act Of 2024 (no Ai Fraud Act).
Hawaii's Senate Concurrent Resolution 95 (2024) would have encouraged the U.S. Congress to pass the NO FAKES Act of 2023, the No AI FRAUD Act of 2024 or similar legislation as a safeguard against the exploitation of artists, creative professionals and…
DIGITAL LIKENESS PROTECTION
Illinois's SB 3705 (103rd General Assembly) would have created the Digital Voice and Likeness Protection Act. A provision in a personal or professional services agreement would be unenforceable if it allows a digital replica of the individual's voice or…
Extends crime of identity theft to include fraudulent impersonation or false depiction by means of artificial intelligence or deepfake technology.
New Jersey's A3912 would extend the identity theft crime to impersonating or falsely depicting another person by means of AI or deepfake technology. A 'false personation record' is computer-generated or substantially manipulated media or text that appears to…
Algorithm Accountability Act
The federal S. 3193 (Algorithm Accountability Act) would amend section 230 of the Communications Act to require a social media platform provider to exercise reasonable care in designing, training, testing, deploying, operating and maintaining a…
An Act Prohibiting The Creation And Dissemination Of Intimate Images Generated Using Artificial Intelligence And Without Consent.
Connecticut's SB 1143 (2025) was a short proposed bill with no operative text, stating its intent to prohibit the creation and dissemination of AI-generated intimate images without the consent of the person depicted by amending C.G.S. 53a-189c, establish…
Extends crime of identity theft to include fraudulent impersonation or false depiction by means of artificial intelligence or deepfake technology.
New Jersey's S736 would extend the identity theft crime to impersonating or falsely depicting another person by means of AI or deepfake technology. A 'false personation record' is computer-generated or substantially manipulated media or text that appears to…
Prohibits use of facial recognition technology on consumer except for legitimate safety purpose.
New Jersey's S 968 (2024-2025 session, as introduced) would make it an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud Act for a person selling goods or services at retail, or operating a place of public accommodation, to use a biometric surveillance system…
Prohibits deepfake pornography and imposes criminal and civil penalties for non-consensual disclosure.
New Jersey's S976 would make it a third-degree crime to disclose deceptive audio or visual media (deepfakes) depicting sexual activity or intimate parts without the person's consent, with a fine of up to $30,000. It would also treat such media depicting a…
Prohibits creation or disclosure of deceptive audio or visual media, known as "deepfakes," under certain circumstances.
New Jersey's S2483 would make it a fourth-degree crime to create deceptive audio or visual media (deepfakes) without license or privilege and for an unlawful purpose, and a third-degree crime to disclose such media, knowing or reasonably should know it was…
Reporting mechanism: child sexual abuse material.
California's AB 1946 amends the law on social media platforms and child sexual abuse material (Civil Code §§ 3273.65-3273.67, 3345.1). CSAM now includes intimate visual depictions of identifiable minors, including digital forgeries made with software,…
Deepfake Political Advertising Regulation Amendment Act of 2024
The District of Columbia's B25-0832, the Deepfake Political Advertising Regulation Amendment Act of 2024, would have required campaign material containing AI-generated "artificial media" to carry a disclosure statement, barred knowingly distributing…
An Act Regarding Synthetic Media in Campaign Advertising
Maine requires campaign ads that contain 'synthetic media' of a candidate to carry the disclosure 'THIS COMMUNICATION CONTAINS AUDIO, VIDEO AND/OR IMAGES THAT HAVE BEEN MANIPULATED OR ALTERED.' Synthetic media is an image, audio or video of a candidate that…
"Social Media Fairness and Transparency Act"; establishes requirements for social media companies concerning content moderation practices; establishes cause of action against social media companies for violation of content moderation practices.
New Jersey's A4768, the Social Media Fairness and Transparency Act, would require large social media companies to publish their content-moderation standards and the keywords used to censor or prioritize posts, let users opt out of algorithmic post…
Relates to requiring advertisements to disclose the use of synthetic media
Not law. A 216 (2023-2024) would have required anyone advertising goods or services in New York, in any medium, to disclose a synthetic performer in an ad when they knew of it: a digital asset made with generative AI or software to look like a human…
Enacts the "New York fundamental artificial intelligence requirements in (FAIR) news act"; provides transparency requirements for news media content composed, authored, or otherwise created through generative AI.
New York's FAIR News Act (S 8451-B / A 8962-B) passed both houses in June 2026 but has not been delivered to the Governor, so it is not law. If enacted, news media content (news, weather, traffic, sports or entertainment) published, broadcast or accessible…
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 28 and Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to the unauthorized use of deepfake or actual likeness.
Tennessee's SB 1346, the Preventing Deepfake Images Act (Tenn. Code § 39-17-1901 et seq.), lets a person shown in an intimate digital depiction (a realistic digitally created or altered image appearing to show them nude or in sexual conduct) sue anyone who…
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to unlawful images.
Tennessee's SB 404 (114th General Assembly) would have expanded the offense of unlawful exposure to cover distributing, with intent to cause emotional distress, an intimate or sexually explicit image of an identifiable person that was created or modified…
Defining synthetic media in campaigns for elective office, and providing relief for candidates and campaigns.
Chapter 360, Laws of 2023 addresses election deepfakes. Synthetic media is an image, audio or video of a person's appearance, speech or conduct intentionally manipulated with generative adversarial network techniques or other digital technology to create a…
Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act of 2025
Federal S 1396, the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act of 2025, would direct the NIST Under Secretary to set up a public-private partnership on content provenance and synthetic-content detection standards. Starting 2…
Relating to the use of artificial intelligence in campaign communications; declaring an emergency.
Oregon's SB 1571 requires any campaign communication (one supporting or opposing a clearly identified candidate or measure, at any spending level) that includes synthetic media to carry a disclosure that the image, audio or video has been manipulated.…
Election Law - Election Misinformation, Election Disinformation, and Deepfakes
Maryland's Chapter 444 of 2026 targets election misinformation and deepfakes. On a credible report of false information about voting, results or voting rights, including a deepfake, the State Administrator of Elections must publish corrections and may seek a…
Digital replicas.
California's SB 1111 clarifies that the voice or likeness protected by Civil Code § 3344, the right to sue over knowing use of a person's name, voice, signature, photograph or likeness on products or in advertising without consent, includes a digital…
Prohibit distributing deepfakes under the Nebraska Political Accountability and Disclosure Act
Not law. Nebraska LB615, introduced by Senator John Cavanaugh, would have barred distributing a deceptive and fraudulent deepfake of a candidate or party within 90 days before an election, if the distributor knew or should have known what it was. A…
Requires disclosure of the use of artificial intelligence in political communications; directs the state board of elections to create criteria for determining whether a political communication contains an image or video footage created through generative artificial intelligence and to create a…
This bill mandates disclosure of AI use in political communications and directs the state board of elections to define AI-generated content.
BETTER SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS ACT
Illinois's SB 3454 (104th General Assembly) would create the Better Social Media Feeds Act. A covered online platform deploying an algorithmic recommender system would have to prominently list each system, describe its inputs and the weights used, and…
An act relating to the use of synthetic media in elections
Vermont's S.23 (Act 75) bars publishing, communicating or distributing, within 90 days before a Vermont election, synthetic media the person knows is deceptive and fraudulent unless it states: "This media has been manipulated or generated by digital…
To Create The Offense Of Creating, Distributing, Possessing, Or Viewing Artificial Intelligence-generated Matter Depicting Sexually Explicit Conduct Involving A Child.
Arkansas HB 1518 (2025) would have added Ark. Code § 5-27-611 making it an offense to knowingly use AI or other computer technology to create a visual depiction of a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct that is indistinguishable from actual conduct, to…
Includes "deep fake" images created by digitization within the definition of unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image.
New York's S 1042-A extends the crime of unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image (Penal Law § 245.15), a class A misdemeanor, to images created or altered by digitization, meaning realistically altered using images of another person or…
An Act relating to defamation claims based on the use of deepfakes; and relating to the use of deepfakes in electioneering communications.
Not law. HB 358 passed the Alaska House 38-2 on May 9, 2024. It would have made a defamation claim based on a deepfake defamation per se and barred knowingly using a deepfake in an electioneering communication to influence an election. People harmed could…
ELEC CD-AI ADVERT DISCLOSURE
Illinois's SB 150 (104th General Assembly) would add Section 9-9.6 to the Election Code. A person, committee or other entity that creates, originally publishes or originally distributes a qualified political advertisement, meaning a paid ad about a…
Requires disclosure of the use of artificial intelligence in political communications; directs the state board of elections to create criteria for determining whether a political communication contains an image or video footage created through generative artificial intelligence and to create a…
New York's S 7592-A (2023-2024) would have amended Election Law section 14-106 to require any political communication that uses an image or video generated wholly or partly with artificial intelligence to carry the statement "THIS COMMUNICATION WAS GENERATED…
Establishes contract requirements for contracts involving the creation and use of digital replicas.
New York's S 7676-B adds General Obligations Law § 5-302. A clause in a personal or professional services agreement is void as to new performances by digital replication if it lets a digital replica of the person's voice or likeness replace work they would…
CRIM CD-Deepfake-Harass
Illinois's HB 5106 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Criminal Code of 2012 so that a person commits harassment through electronic communications when he or she uses electronic communication to transmit a deepfake to any person with intent to harass.…
Prohibits the creation and dissemination of synthetic media within sixty days of an election with intent to unduly influence the outcome of an election; makes such act a class E felony.
New York's S 8400-A (2023-2024) would have added Election Law § 17-172 making it a class E felony to create, or cause to be created, synthetic media and disseminate or publish it within sixty days of an election with intent to injure a candidate or unduly…
Provides relative to the use of artificial intelligence in political campaigns
Louisiana's HB 459 (Act 806) bars making an electioneering communication portraying a candidate or an elected official subject to recall that AI was used to create, alter or digitally manipulate so it would falsely appear to a reasonable observer to be an…
California AI Transparency Act.
California's SB 1000 amends the California AI Transparency Act, operative since August 2, 2026. Any producer of a generative AI system publicly accessible in California is now covered (no 1,000,000-user threshold). Providers must offer a free disclosure…
TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL CREATION OR DISTRIBUTION OF DEEPFAKE VISUAL MATERIAL; AND TO ESTABLISH A CAUSE OF ACTION FOR UNLAWFUL CREATION OF DEEPFAKE VISUAL MATERIAL.
Arkansas Act 827 of 2025 makes it a crime to knowingly create or distribute, without consent, realistic deepfake images or video showing an identifiable person nude or engaged in sexual conduct: a Class A misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class D felony…
Prohibits deepfake pornography and imposes criminal and civil penalties for non-consensual disclosure.
Not law. A 1892 would have made it a crime in New Jersey to disclose sexually explicit deepfakes of a person without consent, with the same penalty as nonconsensual 'revenge porn' (a third-degree crime: 3 to 5 years and up to $15,000), and would have…
Artificial Intelligence Modifications
Utah's HB 276 enacts two AI laws. The Digital Voyeurism Prevention Act bars AI image generation services from distributing counterfeit intimate images of a real person without verified consent, requires covered platforms to remove reported images within 48…
Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding video voyeurism and to revise a penalty for disclosing explicit synthetic media.
Idaho's H 727 (2026 Session Laws Chapter 121) amends two sex-crime laws. Video voyeurism (§ 18-6605), a felony, covers disseminating, publishing or selling, or threatening or conspiring to do so, an identifiable person's intimate image to harass or degrade.…
Revise election laws regarding disclosure requirements for the use of AI in elections
Montana bars people and groups working in an official election capacity from paying for or sponsoring an election or electioneering communication they know, or should know, is a deepfake of a candidate or party on the ballot, within 60 days before voting…
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – Adds to existing law to establish the Conversational AI Safety Act.
Idaho's Conversational AI Safety Act (Idaho Code Title 48, ch. 21) regulates public-facing AI chatbots that simulate human conversation. Operators must disclose that the service is AI when a reasonable person could be misled, adopt a suicide-ideation…
Political campaign advertisements; synthetic media, penalty.
Vetoed. Virginia's HB 2479 (2025) would have barred sponsoring an electioneering communication (a paid message naming a candidate, aimed at voters within 60 days of the election) containing synthetic media, meaning deceptively altered or AI-generated images…
Relating To Identity Theft.
Hawaii's SB 2304 (2026) would have added fraudulent impersonation or false depiction through artificial intelligence or materially deceptive media to the identity theft offenses in HRS 708-839.6, 708-839.7 and 708-839.8, and defined both terms in HRS…
Relating To Artificial Intelligence.
Hawaii's HB 2137 (Act 247 of 2026) adds a new HRS chapter making it unlawful to knowingly publish a realistic digital imitation (a highly realistic AI-generated depiction, audio or video of a real person's voice, face or likeness in a work they did not…
AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND OTHER MEANS TO GENERATE DECEPTIVE SYNTHETIC MEDIA AND AFFECT ELECTIONS.
Did not pass. HB 5342 would have barred distributing deceptive synthetic media (AI-altered or fake images, audio or video of a person) within 90 days before a Connecticut election or primary, without the person's consent and with intent to injure a candidate…
Campaign finance: advertising; using artificial intelligence in certain political advertisements; require disclosure. Amends sec. 47 of 1976 PA 388 (MCL 169.247) & adds sec. 59. TIE BAR WITH: HB 5143'23
Michigan's HB 5141 (Public Act 263 of 2023) requires whoever creates, originally publishes or originally distributes a qualified political advertisement (a paid ad about a Michigan candidate, election or ballot question with image, audio or video generated…
Preventing the dissemination of deepfake materials of political candidates before an election.
New Hampshire's HB 630 (2025) would have amended RSA 664:14-c, which bars distributing a deepfake of a candidate, election official or party within 90 days of an election unless it carries a prescribed disclosure, so that it covers deepfakes created using…
Sensitive Deepfake Images
New Mexico's HB 530 (2025) would have expanded the unauthorized-distribution-of-sensitive-images law (NMSA 30-37A-1) to cover 'sensitive deepfake images', meaning images created, altered or digitally manipulated to show a person's uncovered genitals, a…
"Prohibition of Exploitation by Deepfakes Act"; enact.
Mississippi's SB 2437 (2025), the "Prohibition of Exploitation by Deepfakes Act," would have made it unlawful to use an interactive computer service to knowingly publish intimate visual depictions, including AI-made "morphed images," of identifiable…
Artificial intelligence; definitions; establishing the rights of Oklahomans when interacting with artificial intelligence; effective date.
Oklahoma's HB 3453 (2024), as engrossed, would define artificial intelligence and declare that Oklahomans have rights when dealing with it: to know when they interact with AI in consequential exchanges or consume realistic content generated entirely by AI…
Establishes criminal penalties for production or dissemination of deceptive audio or visual media, commonly known as "deepfakes."
New Jersey's A 3540 (P.L.2025, c.40) makes it a third-degree crime for a person, without license or privilege, to create a deepfake (deceptive audio or visual media) to attempt or further any crime or offense, or to solicit, disclose or use one for that…
Community colleges: artificial intelligence: pilot program.
California's AB 2504 creates the Future of Creative Industries Pilot Program at up to 10 community colleges to retrain workers in film, TV, music, touring and live events who have been or may be displaced by generative AI, such as sound engineers, voice…
Artificial intelligence technology.
Vetoed. California's SB 11 would have required anyone offering consumers AI technology that can create a digital replica to post, by December 1, 2026, a warning that unlawful use to depict another person without consent may bring civil or criminal liability,…
TRAIN Act Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks Act
The federal S. 2455 (TRAIN Act) would add 17 U.S.C. 514, letting a copyright owner ask a federal district court clerk to issue a subpoena to the developer of a generative AI model for copies of, or records identifying, the owner's works used to train it, on…
Crimes and punishments; sexual obscenity; making certain acts unlawful; effective date.
Oklahoma's HB 1364 (2025) adds AI-made sexual images to the crime of nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images. An artificially generated sexual depiction is an image that appears to authentically show a person nude or in sexual conduct that did…
Identity Protection Modifications
Utah SB 256 (2026) applies defamation law to deepfakes and strengthens likeness rights. It is not a defense to libel or slander that content was created with generative AI, computer animation or digital manipulation. Before suing over digitally created…
An Act to Protect Individuals from the Threatened Unauthorized Dissemination of Certain Private Images, Including Artificially Generated Private Images
Maine's LD 1944 (Public Law chapter 400) expands the crime of unauthorized dissemination of certain private images (17-A MRSA §511-A) to cover an image created or modified so that it appears to show the depicted person nude or engaged in a sexual act or…
Disclosure of Intimate Images
South Carolina's H. 3058 (Act No. 37 of 2025) creates the crime of unauthorized disclosure of intimate images (S.C. Code §§ 16-15-330, 16-15-332), covering real images and "digitally forged intimate images" made or substantially modified with machine…
Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment by means of electronic or digital communication; provides for a private right of action for the unlawful dissemination or publication of deep fakes, which are digitized images which are altered to incorporate a person's face or their identifiable body…
New York's S 6278 would add Penal Law § 240.80, making it a class A misdemeanor, with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm, to produce, distribute, publish or broadcast a deep fake: an altered digital image that puts a person's face or body part into a…
Adopt the Age-Appropriate Online Design Code Act
Nebraska's LB 504 (2025), the Age-Appropriate Online Design Code Act, applies to covered online services that know a user is a minor. Among the tools a service must give each covered minor, it must let the minor control personalized recommendation systems,…
An act relating to an age-appropriate design code
Vermont's S.69 (Act 63 of 2025) is the state's age-appropriate design code for online services likely to be used by minors. Its algorithm provision, 9 V.S.A. § 2449e, requires a covered business to prominently disclose the purpose of each algorithmic…
Establishes the "AI-Generated Content Accountability and Privacy Protection Act of 2026"
Missouri's HB 2321 (AI-Generated Content Accountability and Privacy Protection Act of 2026), as introduced, would make it a crime to knowingly publish or distribute algorithmically generated or altered content depicting a person without that person's consent…
Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act
The federal H.R. 1941 (Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act) would let the subject of a digitally manipulated intimate depiction sue anyone who discloses it without consent, with $150,000 in liquidated damages, and make it a federal crime to disclose…
To force any media/internet creator providing artificial intelligence created videos to have an identifying marker that allows viewers to know that the video is not real.
West Virginia's HB 4496 (2026 regular session) would have added an Artificial Intelligence Media Disclosure article (W. Va. Code 46A-9) requiring any entity that creates or distributes AI-generated media for public consumption to include a clear and…
DEFIANCE Act of 2025 Disrupt Explicit Forged Images And Non-Consensual Edits Act of 2025
The federal H.R. 3562 (DEFIANCE Act of 2025) would amend 15 U.S.C. 6851 to let an identifiable individual sue over an "intimate digital forgery": a sexually intimate depiction made with software, machine learning or AI that a reasonable person could not tell…
Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act
The federal H.R. 5272 (Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act) would add Section 325 to the Federal Election Campaign Act, barring any person, committee or entity from knowingly distributing materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media of a…
California AI Transparency Act: system provenance data.
California's AB 2713 rewrites the large-online-platform duties of the California AI Transparency Act (Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.3.1). From January 1, 2027, large online platforms must detect provenance data on content they distribute, show in their interface…
Synthetic digital content; definition, penalty, report, effective clause.
Virginia's HB 2124 (2025) would treat AI-made synthetic digital content that realistically but falsely depicts a person as "words" under the insulting-words, defamation-mitigation and criminal slander laws, and make using it for the purpose of a fraud crime…
Synthetic digital content; definition, penalty, report, effective clause.
Virginia's SB 1053 (2025) would treat AI-made synthetic digital content that realistically but falsely depicts a person as "words" under the insulting-words, defamation-mitigation and criminal slander laws, and make using it for the purpose of a fraud crime…
Prohibits using artificial intelligence to create child sexual abuse materials. (8/1/26)
Act 892 updates Louisiana's child sexual abuse materials law (R.S. 14:81.1) to cover AI. A 'child' now includes an image or other visual representation created or generated by electronic or digital means, including AI, that a reasonable person would find…
AN ACT relating to protection of information and declaring an emergency.
Kentucky's SB 4 (2025) governs state government's use of AI. The Commonwealth Office of Technology must create an Artificial Intelligence Governance Committee, set standards for agencies' use of generative and high-risk AI, keep a registry of those systems…
Child Exploitation Material - Civil and Criminal Actions (Safe Kids Act)
Maryland's SB 989 (2026, the Safe Kids Act, cross-filed with HB 924) would have let a parent or guardian sue an online platform that knowingly and intentionally distributes, or creates or develops, unlawful child exploitation material, and would have amended…
"Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act"; establish to protect minors from harmful content.
Mississippi's HB 1126 (Chapter 45, Laws of 2024), the Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act, mainly sets age-registration, data and harm-mitigation rules for digital services. Its AI-relevant part amends Section 97-5-31 so that the child…
AN ACT relating to campaign practices; requiring certain communications relating to an election that include synthetic media to contain a disclosure; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Nevada AB 73 adds NRS 294A.3493. A campaign communication paid for by a person, candidate or committee that supports or opposes a candidate or party and includes synthetic media (an image, audio or video of a person intentionally manipulated with AI,…
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to the sexual exploitation of children.
Tennessee HB 2163 (Public Chapter 911) brings AI-created imagery within the state's sexual exploitation of children offenses. The definition of 'material' in TCA 39-17-1002 now includes any computer image or computer-generated image, including an image…
Identifying Outputs of Generative Adversarial Networks Act (IOGAN Act)
The IOGAN Act directs the National Science Foundation to support research on manipulated or synthesized content and information authenticity, including digital forensic tools, watermarking of generated media, and public awareness of deepfakes (sec. 3). It…
AI Regulation in the Media Industry
State legislatures across the United States are actively developing artificial intelligence regulations that directly affect Media companies and practitioners. These laws address a wide range of concerns including algorithmic discrimination, automated decision-making, data privacy, consumer transparency, and the use of high-risk AI systems that can materially affect individuals' lives. As of 2026, 52 states have introduced or enacted legislation with direct implications for Media.
Compliance requirements vary significantly by state, making it essential for Media legal and compliance teams to track both enacted laws and pending bills. Key obligations may include conducting algorithmic impact assessments, providing consumer disclosures when AI is used in consequential decisions, implementing risk management programs, and ensuring human-in-the-loop oversight for high-stakes outcomes. Penalties for non-compliance can be substantial — see our Penalty Tracker for details by state.
To assess your organization's specific compliance obligations under current and upcoming Media AI regulations, use our Am I Affected? tool. For upcoming enforcement dates, visit the Deadlines page or the Deadline Calendar. Use the Bill Comparator to analyze differences between state laws side-by-side.