Creating and sharing deceptive media made with artificial intelligence is now a crime in New Jersey and open to lawsuits under the new state law.
The Democratic Government of the Phil Murphy signed a legislation on Wednesday, which was punished for up to five years in prison for the creation and spread of so -called deceptive media and established a basis for lawsuits against the perpetrator.
New Jersey joins the increasing list of countries that make measures that direct the media created by the generative AI. At least 20 countries have adopted a similar legislation that targets such media that includes elections.
Since last yearGovernors in more than a dozen countries have signed laws that have broken through digitally created or modified images of sexual abuse of children, according to a review of the National Center for Missing and U used Children.
The law of New Jersey partly stems from the story of the students of Westfield High School, Francesca Man, who stood with the governor while he signed a law this week. Man said that she was a victim of a video of Deepfake two years ago and that she was told that the only punishment for the person who created him was a short suspension because there was no law against such media.
“Working nothing more is an option,” said Mani, who advocated the legislation and was recognizedTime last year as an anti-Deepfake activist.
The measure defines Deepfake as any video or audio shot or picture that seems a reasonable person to realistically portray that someone is doing something they have not really done.
In addition to the prison time after the conviction, the law is determined by civil penalties that would allow victims to deal with lawsuits.
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