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Who: Florida State Senator Don Gaetz, Lucy Adams Stevenson, Florida Senate Criminal Justice Committee
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What: A bill to criminalize the creation of non-consensual sexually explicit AI-generated images
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When: Recently passed through committee with a 9-0 vote
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Where: Florida State Senate, impacting Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties
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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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