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U.S. federal law criminalizing publication of nonconsensual intimate images, including AI deepfakes, and requiring platforms to remove them on notice.
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The Justice Department's 18 August statement of interest argues Minnesota's HF 1606 reaches further than federal law. Teams betting on a stable state patchwork now have a federal counterparty.
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Alvin Bragg's office took the sites offline by court order and says about 1,200 people were depicted without consent. It will not say whether anyone will be charged, and the legal hook is a 2023 New York statute.
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The House adjourned on September 17 and does not return until after the November midterms. For anyone budgeting AI compliance, that leaves California-style state statutes and the EU AI Act as the rules that bind.
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ESET's guidance puts the US removal deadline at 48 hours from a valid request, and the study it cites counts 181 nudify sites drawing 40 million visits a month, so the filing path has to exist first.
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New York took the domains under its own criminal procedure laws, the layer a state prosecutor can reach. Many of the videos on them were reposts from an older site, and the DA says its investigation into who ran them is open.
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Benjamin Shultz searched about 160 nonconsensual deepfake domains for every national MP in the European Union. Some of the pages he found carry only a woman's official portrait and a link to an undressing tool.
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The order denying xAI an injunction leans on a three-month filing delay rather than the First Amendment, which leaves the $500,000-per-image price live while the constitutional question the case turns on stays open.
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A substitute teacher's sexualized deepfake crossed two schools and three apps. The school could discipline a student; nothing in the escalation path could take the file down.
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If the product framing holds, image generators lose the First Amendment cover their risk models quietly assume, and a $500,000-per-image no-fault regime starts running.
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