Montana Bill would make sharing you have explicit to be a crime

Helena – sharing the sexual explicit deepes created by artificial intelligence could become a crime if a draft law in Senate Montana passes, an effort that the sponsor of the bill says it has been stimulated by an increasing tendency of these images from all over the country.

Senate’s draft law 413Transported by Senator Laura Smith, D-Helena, had the first hearing on the Senate Judicial Committee on Thursday. Smith’s draft law would provide law enforcement forces in cases of extortion and intimidation.

“The way Deepfakes are now used to, from my understanding, to intimidate or influence people, I have reduced it to sexual explicit,” said Smith. “It does not mean that someone else could not run an invoice that applies to everyone … Deepfakes unconstituable.”

The hearing had a supporter and an opponent. Nanette Gilbertson with the Association of Lawyers in Montana County supported SB 413.

“We are very grateful because Senator Smith brings this bill and thinking about this emerging issue,” said Gilbertson. “You have arrived and we take care of it and we will have to do it.”

Smith added that a criminal improvement is applied when these depths are made using minors.

The bill is similar to Senate’s draft law 82which adds the use you have to offenses in cases of sexuality that involves minors. SB 82 flew through the room with almost unanimous votes and is now in the Senate committees.

Clayton Murphy is a reporter with UM legislative news service, a partnership of the University of Montana School of Journalism, the Broadcaste Montana Association, the Montana newspaper Association and the Greater Montana Foundation. Murphy can get to [email protected].