S 3551 New Jersey Senate · 2024-2025 Regular Session

Updates certain crimes to include nonconsensual pornographic deepfake threats and disclosure.

This bill (S 3551) adds nonconsensual pornographic deepfakes to New Jersey's criminal laws. It creates new offenses for creating or disclosing deepfakes - images/videos made with AI that falsely depict someone in intimate situations without their consent - making it a third-degree crime to create them and a fourth-degree crime to disclose them. The law defines "deepfake" as AI-generated content appearing authentic but falsely depicting a person's actions. These offenses carry penalties of up to 5 years in prison for creation and up to 18 months for disclosure, alongside fines. The bill also updates criminal coercion laws to explicitly include threats to disclose such deepfakes.
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Introduced Sep 12, 2024 Last action Sep 12, 2024
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Kristin Corrado
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