TexasTexasLawSB 1361
Sexually explicit deepfake videos offense
Created a criminal offense for producing or distributing sexually explicit deepfake videos of a person without consent.
Took effectSep 1, 2023 3 years ago
- Body
- Texas Legislature
- Session
- 2023
- Introduced
- Mar 1, 2023
- In effect since
- Sep 1, 20233 years ago
- Votes
- Senate 31-0, House 143-0
- Sponsors
- R (Republican)Republican
- Topics
- Deepfakes
Timeline
Sep 1, 2023 3 years ago
Jun 2, 2023 3 years ago
May 18, 2023 3 years ago
Apr 20, 2023 3 years ago
Mar 1, 2023 3 years ago
Sponsors
- R (Republican)Joan Huffman
- R (Republican)Dustin Burrows
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Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA)
Bans developing or deploying AI systems for certain intentional harms such as behavioral manipulation toward self-harm, unlawful discrimination, government social scoring and sexual deepfakes of minors, requires state agencies to disclose AI use to consumers, and creates an AI regulatory sandbox and the Texas Artificial Intelligence Council, enforced by the attorney general.
Age verification for AI nudify tools
Requires commercial websites and apps that offer tools to create artificial sexual material using real people's likenesses to verify users are adults, with civil penalties.
AI-generated obscene depictions of children
Creates a criminal offense for possessing, promoting or producing obscene visual material that appears to depict a child, including AI-generated or animated images.
Computer-generated child sexual abuse material
Expands child sexual abuse material offenses to cover computer-generated and AI-altered images depicting children, including recognizable real children.
Deepfake sexual media and artificial intimate visual material
Creates civil liability and expands criminal offenses for producing or distributing nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfake media and artificial intimate visual material, with an affirmative defense for AI application providers that prohibit and take steps to prevent such content.
Financial exploitation using AI-generated media
Creates criminal and civil liability for financial exploitation or abuse carried out with artificially generated media or phishing communications.
User reports of explicit deepfake material on social media
Requires social media platforms to provide a way for users to report explicit deepfake material and to respond to and act on such reports on set timelines.
Sexually explicit deepfake media
Would have broadened the offense of producing or distributing sexually explicit deepfakes from videos to any deepfake media, including images.
Change log
- AddedAdded to the list. Set by hand from the official record.Sep 27
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