Civil Liability for Deepfake Creators

A federal statute creating a private right to sue creators of nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes shifts legal pressure off platforms and toward individual creators and operators, likely forcing investments in provenance, registration, and detection upstream of distribution. If the House concurs, expect rapid litigation, defensive platform policies (ID/verifiable provenance), and novel disputes over who is the 'creator' in generative pipelines. — This reorients AI governance from platform takedown duties to realigned liability and rights regimes, with broad effects on free‑speech balance, platform design, and generator‑side controls.