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Assembly committee advances bill to make AI-generated sextortion a prosecutable extortion tool
Summary
The Assembly Public Safety Committee voted to send AB 355, a measure to clarify that using AI-generated images for sextortion is extortion, to the Appropriations Committee after debate over vagueness and First Amendment concerns.
Assemblymember Sanchez presented AB 355 to the Assembly Standing Committee on Public Safety, saying the bill would “provide clarity as to the illegality of using AI generated images for extortion purposes.” The committee voted to pass the measure to the Appropriations Committee.
The bill’s supporters, including Orange County Deputy Sheriff Investigator Brendan Billinger and representatives from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and the California District Attorneys Association, described a rise in…
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