Bill > SB1361

This bill creates a new criminal offense in Texas for the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit videos using "deep fake" technology. The key provisions of the bill are: 1) It defines a "deep fake video" as a video created with the intent to deceive, which appears to depict a real person performing an action that did not occur in reality; 2) It makes it a criminal offense, punishable as a Class A misdemeanor, for a person to knowingly produce or distribute by electronic means a deep fake video that appears to depict a person with their intimate parts exposed or engaged in sexual conduct, without the effective consent of the person appearing to be depicted; and 3) It specifies that if the conduct constitutes an offense under this law as well as another law, the person may be prosecuted under either law.

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