Two Men Charged Under New Trump Law Targeting AI ‘Deepfakes’

In Ohio last month, a man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act when he pleaded guilty to utilizing AI to manufacture child sexual assault material.

Two adolescent lads were placed on probation in March for making explicit AI photos of their peers at an exclusive private school in Pennsylvania.

In a separate lawsuit filed earlier this year, three teens in Tennessee sued Elon Musk’s xAI, alleging the company’s Grok tools turned their genuine photos into sexually explicit images.

High school students seek class-action status to represent what the lawsuit says are thousands of others who were similarly affected as minors.

Last year, President Trump signed the bipartisan legislation, which imposes harsher penalties for the sharing of non-consensual intimate pictures commonly labeled “revenge porn,” as well as deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence.

Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz and Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar co-sponsored the legislation, and First Lady Melania Trump later supported it.