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Prosecutors, advocates support bill to criminalize fraudulent deep‑fake identity impersonation
Summary
House Bill 14‑25 would add identity‑fraud provisions to cover AI‑generated deepfakes and permit civil injunctive relief; prosecutors and victims' advocates urged the Judiciary Committee to pass the bill to address cases where existing law does not reach deepfake impersonation, while public‑defender witnesses warned about potential overbroad
A bipartisan group of prosecutors, victims' advocates and industry representatives testified in support of House Bill 14‑25, a proposal to update Maryland's identity‑fraud statutes to cover fraudulent use of artificial intelligence and deep‑fake representations.
Why it matters: witnesses described cases in which AI‑generated audio or video was used to impersonate real people and cause reputational, emotional and public‑safety harms. The panel cited a high‑profile county case in which an audio deep fake attributed racist and anti‑Semitic…
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