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House subcommittee moves senate deepfake-revenge pornography bill forward, keeps intent requirement and civil defamation remedy
Summary
The House Criminal Law Subcommittee voted to move a senate bill that would add a combined definition covering deepfakes and nonconsensual explicit imagery into the state's revenge pornography code, retained an intent-to-harm element for criminal liability, and adopted a civil defamation-per-se remedy for fake images; house bills were postponed for further drafting.
ANNAPOLIS — The House Criminal Law Subcommittee on March 28 moved a senate bill that would fold AI-generated “deepfake” images into the state’s existing revenge pornography statute while keeping a civil defamation-per-se remedy for fabricated images.
The chair opened the meeting saying the panel would consider competing measures from Delegate Lopez, Delegate Pippe, Delegate Worman and a senate bill from Senator Hester. Committee counsel presented a head-to-head comparison and advocates urged a single definition that treats real and computer-generated images “on a continuum.” Lisa Jordan of the Maryland Coalition Against ****** Assault said, “there really should be no distinction” between actual and AI-created visual representations.
A central issue at the hearing was whether criminal liability should require an intent-to-harm element. Jeremy Zachar…
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