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Committee hears bipartisan bills to criminalize and create civil remedies for nonconsensual intimate deepfakes
Summary
Lawmakers and advocates testified in support of House Bills 4047 and 4048, which would create civil remedies and criminal penalties for the nonconsensual creation or distribution of intimate deepfakes; witnesses described rising harms and urged passage.
The Michigan House Judiciary Committee heard testimony in support of House Bills 4047 and 4048, bipartisan bills that would create civil causes of action and criminal penalties for the nonconsensual creation or distribution of intimate deepfake images and videos.
Representative Beierlein, a sponsor, told the committee that deepfakes are "manipulated audio visual content ... often indistinguishable from real recordings" and said the bills focus on intimate deepfakes that can be "irreversible" in harm. She described the package as providing "a means for affected individuals to seek civil justice" and giving law enforcement tools to hold perpetrators accountable.
Representative Sernigle (committee testimony recorded with variant spellings in the transcript) joined Beierlein in describing the bills as reintroductions of prior-year legislation that…
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