Committee hears bill targeting malicious AI deepfakes and modernizing identity‑fraud law
SB8 would strengthen Maryland's identity‑fraud statutes and create crimes for knowingly deceptive, harmful AI/deepfake impersonations; the senate amended intent language to require willful, fraudulent harm and removed a potentially overbroad 'mislead' standard.
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Sen. Hester's office asked the House Judiciary Committee to consider SB8, a modernization of Maryland's identity‑fraud statutes that adds specific prohibitions on AI‑enabled deception and deepfake impersonation used with knowing, fraudulent intent to cause harm. Bridget O'Toole (chief of staff) said the senate added an amendment to narrow scope and avoid overbreadth by requiring knowing and willful intent to cause harm and by removing the ambiguous term "mislead."
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