(WXYZ) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed two bipartisan bills that prohibit deep-fake AI pornography.

House Bills 4047 and 4048 – sponsored by State Reps. Matthew Bierlein (R-Vassar) and Penelope Tsernoglou (D-East Lansing) prohibit deep fakes that include harmful sexual content featuring a specific individual.

Deep fakes use AI to create fake media, including videos, pictures, or audio, of events that never happened.

“I am so excited, proud, and relieved that because of these bills, it is now illegal for individuals to create or disseminate intimate deep fakes of an individual without their consent here in Michigan,” Tsernoglou said in a statement. “These bills mark the beginning stages of a long, bumpy journey that our state faces when trying to regulate artificial intelli

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