The New York state assembly passed a law banning AI-generated revenge porn just days before the scheduled end of the 2023 legislative session on Friday.
After the state Senate overwhelmingly adopted the bill on May 22, Assembly Democrats gave their approval on Tuesday.
As technology makes it easier and easier to paste someone’s face to the body of someone else in order to publicly humiliate them, the crackdown on false intimate photographs means that violators may spend up to a year in jail.
“That can have a lifelong impact on someone because it’s on the web, it doesn’t come off easily. And so we needed to update the law,” Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D-Scarsdale), who sponsored the bill, said.
If signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, the law would go into force 60 days after. The bill’s passage comes almost two years after ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo put a more extensive prohibition on the unauthorized publishing of personal pictures into law.
