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Senate committee advances bill creating civil and criminal remedies for AI "deepfake" impersonation
Summary
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to send Senate Bill 13 46 to the calendar after testimony from a local broadcaster who said AI-generated impersonations used her image in sexualized and fraudulent posts. The bill, as amended, would create a civil cause of action, equitable relief and a new criminal offense for intimate digital depictions.
Senate Bill 13 46, a measure that would create civil and criminal penalties for nonconsensual intimate deepfakes, was advanced to the Senate calendar after testimony from a witness who said the technology destroyed her sense of safety.
Bree Smith, a Sumner County meteorologist, told the Judiciary Committee she discovered fake social‑media accounts last fall that used her face and voice in sexualized images and videos. “Discovering these imposter accounts and seeing the very degrading images was…
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