Status:
Current
Activity details
The Summary Offences (Humiliating, Degrading and Invasive Depictions) Amendment Act 2025 (Act) complements the existing image-based offences in Part 5A of the Summary Offences Act 1953. It does this by establishing new offences to target the creation, distribution and threat to distribute humiliating, degrading or invasive depictions of a simulated person that have been wholly generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) or other digital technology. Among other things, this may include wholly AI-generated deepfakes of a real person that are of a sexually explicit nature, and that have been created or shared without a person’s consent.
Implementation progress update
The Act passed Parliament on 14 May 2025 and received assent on 22 May 2025, but is yet to commence operation.
More information
- Learn about the National Plan to End Violence against women and children 2022-2032.
- Read the First Action Plan 2023-2027.
- Browse the First Action Plan 2023-2027 Activities Addendum update.
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