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Senate Judiciary Panel Sends Bill Criminalizing Nonconsensual "Deepfakes" to Calendar after Meteorologist’s Testimony
Summary
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.
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.
Senate Bill 13-46, sponsored on the floor by Senator Cynthia Yarborough, would add a civil cause of action and a criminal offense for the creation or distribution of intimate digital depictions made without consent. The committee adopted Amendment 5,183 and voted to send the bill to the Senate calendar; the chair recorded eight ayes and no nays.
The committee heard testimony from Bree Smith, who identified herself as a meteorologist and Sumner County resident. Smith told the committee she found dozens, possibly…
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