REFERENCE TITLE: deep fake recordings or images

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2024

 

 

 

SB 1336

 

Introduced by

Senators Carroll: Gowan, Petersen, Shamp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Act

 

amending title 13, chapter 35, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 13-3508; relating to obscenity.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 13, chapter 35, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 13-3508, to read:

START_STATUTE13-3508. Unlawful dissemination of deep fake recordings or images depicting intimate parts or sexual acts; classification; definitions

A. It is unlawful to intentionally disseminate a deep fake recording or image if all of the following apply:

1. The person that disseminates the deep fake recording or image knows or reasonably should know that the depicted individual does not consent to the dissemination.

2. The deep fake recording or image realistically depicts any of the following:

(a) The intimate parts of another individual that are presented as the intimate parts of the depicted individual.

(b) Artificially generated intimate parts presented that are as the intimate parts of the depicted individual.

(c) The depicted individual engaging in a sexual act.

3. The depicted individual is identifiable by any of the following:

(a) From the deep fake recording or image itself.

(b) By the depicted individual or by another person.

(c) From the personal information that is displayed in connection with the deep fake recording or image.

B. A violation of this section is a class 6 felony, except that it is a class 4 felony if any of the following applies:

1. The depicted person suffers any financial loss due to the dissemination of the deep fake recording or image.

2. The person disseminates the deep fake recording or image with the intent to profit from the dissemination.

3. The person maintains an internet website, online service, online application or mobile application to disseminate the deep fake recording or image.

4. The person posts the deep fake recording or image on an internet website.

5. The person disseminates the deep fake recording or image with intent to harass the depicted person.

6. The person obtains the deep fake recording or image by committing a theft, a criminal trespass or computer tampering or unauthorized computer access. 

7. The person has previously been convicted of a violation of this section.

C. For the purposes of this section:

1. "Deep fake recording or image" means any video recording, motion picture film, sound recording, electronic image or photograph or any technological representation of speech or conduct substantially derivative thereof and that both:

(a) Appears to authentically depict any speech or conduct of an individual who did not in fact engage in the speech or conduct.

(b) the production of which was substantially dependent on technical means rather than the ability of another individual to physically or verbally impersonate the individual.

2. "Depicted individual" means an individual in a deep fake recording or image who appears to be engaging in speech or conduct that the individual did not engage in.

3. "Dissemination" means distribution to one or more persons, other than the person depicted in the deep fake recording or image or publication by any publicly available medium.

4. "Harass" means an act that would cause a substantial adverse effect on the safety, security or privacy of a reasonable person.

5. "Intimate parts" means the genitals, pubic area or anus of an individual, or if the individual is female, a partially or fully exposed nipple.

6. "Personal information" means any identifier that permits communication or in-person contact with a person, including any of the following:

(a) a person's first and last names, first initial and last name, first name and last initial or nickname.

(b) a person's home, school or work address.

(c) a person's telephone number, email address or social media account information.

(d) a person's geolocation data.

7. "Sexual act" means either sexual contact or sexual penetration.

8. "Sexual contact" means the intentional touching of intimate parts or intentional touching with seminal fluid or sperm onto another individual's body.

9. "Sexual penetration" means either of the following acts:

(a) sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio or anal intercourse.

(b) any intrusion, however slight, into the genital or anal opening of an individual by another's body part or an object used by another for this purpose.

10. "Social media" means any electronic medium, including an interactive computer service, telephone network or data network, that allows users to create, share and view user-generated content. END_STATUTE