House panel advances bill creating criminal penalties for nonconsensual intimate images, including AI-forged content

The House Judiciary subcommittee on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and special laws on Oct. 12 voted to give H.3058 a favorable report as amended, a bill that would make knowingly sharing intimate images of another person without their effective consent a crime and would also criminalize digitally forged intimate images, including those produced or substantially altered using machine-learning techniques.

The legislation defines “intimate image” as a still or video image of an identifiable person that depicts exposed intimate body parts, bodily fluids or sexually explicit conduct, and defines a “digitally forged intimate image” to include images substantially modified or generated with machine learning. Representative Moore, chair of the subcommittee, said the bill “is meant to create penalties and address the problem of revenge ****.”

The amend…