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Bill would criminalize extortion using real or AI-fabricated intimate images
Summary
Representative Koehnauer also proposed HB 514 to expand Montana's privacy and communications statute to criminalize distributing or threatening to distribute real or digitally fabricated sexual images for the purpose of extortion; prosecutors and public defenders flagged statutory scope and penalties.
Representative Jill Koehnauer told the committee House Bill 514 would add digitally fabricated images to the state’s privacy-and-communications statutes and create a right of action and criminal penalties for people who publish, distribute or threaten to distribute intimate images without consent to obtain money or other valuable consideration.
The draft adds a definition of a "digitally fabricated" image as one created through techniques — including artificial intelligence — that…
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