Virginia’s 2014 law banning the distribution of revenge porn has been updated to include deepfakes, or videos in which software and machine learning can create synthetic media of any person. The law makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to share videos or photos of someone without their consent, even if it is not actually them in the video. Photoshopped images or any other manipulated media are also covered by the law, and violators can face up to $2,500 and one year in jail.
The law is going into effect after the app DeepNude was pulled by its creator due to backlash. The app used machine learning to produce videos of women without clothing from videos of them fully clothed, and comes in the wake of porn being shared on Reddit featuring the faces of famous women and the bodies of porn stars. As Daily Dot reports, “Forty-six states currently have laws barring the distribution of revenge porn, but only a handful of states have set out to legislate deepfakes.”
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