New laws close gap in California on deepfake child pornography

Using an AI-powered app to create fake nude pictures of people without their consent violates all sorts of norms, especially when those people are minors. It would not, however, violate California law -- yet. A pair of bills newly signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom outlaw the creation, possession and distribution of sexually charged images of minors even when they're created with computers, not cameras. The measures take effect Jan. 1. The expansion of state prohibitions comes as students are increasingly being victimized by apps that use artificial intelligence either to take a photo of a fully clothed real person and digitally generate a nude body ("undresser" apps) or seamlessly superimpose the image of a person's face onto a nude body from a pornographic video.