<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The fight against deepfake images will be stepped up in NSW today, with the introduction of laws in Parliament making sexually-explicit images illegal.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Under the legislation, existing offences covering the production and distribution of intimate images without consent would be extended to include those created by Artificial Intelligence (AI).</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It is already a crime in NSW to record or distribute intimate images of a person without their consent or to threaten to do so. This includes intimate images that have been digitally altered.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/trump-says-he-plans-to-put-a-100-tariff-on-computer-chips-likely-pushing-up-cost-of-electronics/e1e24b9d-28f2-4e46-a0ed-ad5cf1c82f85" target="_blank"><strong><span>Trump says he plans to put a 100 per cent tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Current laws will be amended to make the production of a sexually explicit deepfake designed to be a genuine depiction of a real, identifiable person an offence punishable by up to three years' jail.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sharing or threatening to share such images, even if the person hasn't created them, will also be a crime carrying a maximum three-year prison sentence.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In addition to these new offences, the NSW government will criminalise the creation, recording and distribution of sexually explicit audio, whether real or designed to sound like a real, identifiable person.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/nsw-to-outlaw-sexually-explicit-deepfake-images/15a2824c-b72d-49b0-8221-356140a8b73d" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The changes will bring NSW into line with other jurisdictions that have criminalised the non-consensual production and distribution of sexually explicit material involving adults, regardless of how it is created.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Attorney General Michael Daley said the law had to catch up with technology to protect people, particularly young women, from image-based abuse.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This bill closes a gap in NSW legislation that leaves women vulnerable to AI-generated sexual exploitation," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We are ensuring that anyone who seeks to humiliate, intimidate or degrade someone using AI can be prosecuted."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://9.nine.com.au/Z8tJCf"><strong><span>Sign up here</span></strong></a><strong><span> to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.</span></strong></div></div>