Gaetz’s Explicit AI Images Bill Clears Hurdle in Senate

In Brief:

•👤 Who: Florida State Senator Don Gaetz, Lucy Adams Stevenson, Florida Senate Criminal Justice Committee

•📜 What: A bill to criminalize the creation of non-consensual sexually explicit AI-generated images

•📅 When: Recently passed through committee with a 9-0 vote

•📍 Where: Florida State Senate, impacting Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties

•❓ Why: To close a legal loophole that currently only criminalizes the transmission, not the creation, of these images

A bill by Senator Don Gaetz that would criminalize the creation of sexually explicit images of a person without their consent has passed through another committee with a favorable review – thanks in part to the testimony of a woman who says she was personally affected.

Lucy Adams Stevenson, a victim of the practice of creating sexually explicit images of a person with artificial intelligence, testified in front of the Florida State Senate’s Criminal Justice Committee about her story.

The committee approved the bill to move forward unanimously on a 9-0 vote.

State Senator Don Gaetz represents Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties in the Florida Senate and is the driving force behind changing the current law on AI-generated explicit images of children and adults that are made without the subject’s consent.

Currently, only the transmission of these images is a crime. This law would make the creation of the pictures a crime as well.

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