# New Jersey Passed A Law Against Deep Fakes

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**Created:** [April 2, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-jersey-passed-a-law-against-deep-fakes/1016544 "2025-04-02T22:52:52Z")\
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> [@Jophiel](#):
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> My definition was from the same site as MrDibble used.

Yes, it was.

> [@Jophiel](#):
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> We use “Deepfake pornography” as a term to describe a form of image-based sexual abuse.

> [@MrDibble](#):
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> Sexual violence means that someone forces or manipulates someone else into unwanted sexual activity without their consent.[snip]  
> **Forms of sexual violence** [snip]
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> - Showing one’s genitals or naked body to other(s) without consent

So, they mention deep fakes elsewhere explicitly, but not in the list he quoted.

> [@Jophiel](#):
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> Given that pornography is pretty much defined as the sexual display of genitals and/or sexual behavior, it’s safe to think that the National Sexual Violence Resource Center includes AI depictions under “Showing one’s genitals or naked body”.

I disagree. If they meant (including deep fakes) they could have and should have said so. They did not.

> [@Jophiel](#):
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> And, again, the point of making and sharing these images isn’t necessarily (probably not even often) to try to “prove” that the victim was in that photo

Then you are corect and I have missed something.

This just leads to more questions why a law against deep fakes is needed. The only significant difference between a deep fake and a really crappy cut and paste image that could have been done in Photoshop thirty years ago is that deep fakes can pass as actual photographs. If the concern is not that they can pass as real, why criminalize them? How is a deep fake that is distributed as a deep fake different from a drawing that is recognizably the victim? How is it different from a bad cut and paste job in Photoshop?

Both in a moral sense and a legal sense- how is it different?

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