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Broadcaster’s testimony helps advance bill criminalizing nonconsensual intimate deepfakes
Summary
After testimony from local meteorologist Bree Smith about repeated impersonation and extortion, the subcommittee voted to send House Bill 1299, which would criminalize creating and distributing intimate deepfakes without consent, to full judiciary.
House Bill 1299, sponsored by Representative Powell, would make the nonconsensual creation and distribution of sexually explicit “deepfake” images and videos a criminal offense in Tennessee. The sponsor told the committee the bill is intended to protect victims of increasingly sophisticated artificial‑intelligence‑generated sexual images and video used to extort, humiliate or coerce.
Bree (Brie) Smith, who identified herself as a…
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