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The bill creates strong federal protections and remedies for victims of nonconsensual sexually intimate deepfakes—improving takedowns, privacy protections, and deterrence—but does so with broad definitions, low mens rea, and sizable penalties that risk chilling lawful speech, imposing heavy costs on small creators and platforms, and increasing litigation and enforcement burdens.
Identifiable victims (including women, young adults, students, and people with disabilities) gain an explicit federal recognition and civil remedy for nonconsensual sexually intimate deepfakes, enabling lawsuits, injunctions, and damages.
Victims can quickly seek and obtain court orders and privacy protections (injunctions, pseudonymous filings, sealed records, protective orders) to stop ongoing distribution and limit further exposure during litigation.
Platforms and services are more likely to adopt takedown, moderation, and prevention practices and refer victims to social and mental‑health supports, reducing circulation of harmful deepfakes and helping victim recovery.
Tech workers, creators, artists, and online speakers risk chilling or suppression of lawful speech because broad definitions and low mens rea standards (knowledge or reckless disregard) could capture satire, consensual synthetic content, or legitimate expression.
Small creators, inadvertent actors, and other defendants face the prospect of large statutory damages and awards, which could impose crippling financial burdens even in marginal or mistaken cases.
Smaller platforms, nonprofits, and taxpayers may shoulder substantial compliance and enforcement costs as platforms implement detection, moderation, takedowns, and respond to increased reporting.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Creates a federal civil cause of action and statutory definitions covering nonconsensual AI-generated intimate images, and bars labeling as a defense.
Official title: To improve rights to relief for individuals affected by non-consensual activities involving intimate digital forgeries, and for other purposes.
Introduced May 21, 2025 by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · Last progress May 21, 2025
Creates a federal cause of action and updates definitions to cover nonconsensual AI- or computer-generated sexually intimate images and videos (deepfakes). It expands an existing statute to define "intimate digital forgery," clarifies that labeling or disclosure does not remove liability, and authorizes civil suits against those who knowingly create, possess with intent to disclose, solicit, or disclose such forgeries. Also revises the statutory definition of intimate visual depictions, preserves other statutory provisions if part is struck down, and confirms the changes do not alter intellectual property law.