Senate Judiciary Panel Sends Bill Criminalizing Nonconsensual "Deepfakes" to Calendar after Meteorologist’s Testimony

Apr 2, 2025

The Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday advanced Senate Bill 13-46, which would create civil and criminal remedies for nonconsensual intimate deepfakes, after testimony from a local meteorologist who said AI-generated impostor accounts used her likeness to try to extort followers.

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The Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee advanced legislation aimed at penalizing nonconsensual sexually explicit or intimate deepfakes after a Sumner County meteorologist described repeated impersonations of her online.

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