Australia Deepfake Sexual Material Act
Creates a federal criminal offence for transmitting sexual material of an adult over a carriage service without their consent, whether real or created or altered with technology such as AI deepfakes. The base penalty is up to 6 years' imprisonment. Aggravated offences cover people who created or altered the material and people who offend after certain civil penalty orders.
At a glance
In force
- Jurisdiction
- Australia
- Type
- Law
- Official title
- Criminal Code Amendment (Deepfake Sexual Material) Act 2024 (No. 78, 2024)
What this means for you
If you build AI
- Tools that generate sexual imagery of real people sit next to a federal crime in Australia; the offence is about transmitting it without consent.
If you deploy AI
- The offence covers material transmitted after 3 September 2024, even if it was created or altered before then.
If you use AI
- Sharing sexual images of an adult without consent is a crime even if the image was made or altered with AI; the base penalty is up to 6 years' prison.
Key dates
- Sep 3, 2024PastNew federal offence for sharing non-consensual sexual deepfakes commencesSource
Status history
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