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Wisconsin AB855

Wisconsin AB855 is no longer advancing.

This Wisconsin bill creates new rules and penalties around synthetic digital representations — AI-generated or manipulated images, audio, or video of real people. It adds these protections to existing privacy and crime statutes, making unauthorized use of someone's synthetic likeness a punishable offense.

Recorded sponsors: Jenna Jacobson, Maureen McCarville, Karen DeSanto, Christine Sinicki.

Official title

Synthetic digital representations and providing a penalty.

Bill details

Stage
Dead
Policy area
Deepfakes
Party origin
Democrat
Sponsors
Jenna Jacobson, Maureen McCarville, Karen DeSanto, Christine Sinicki
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Focus areas

Topics this bill touches, used to group it with related legislation.

  • Deepfake Regulation
  • Data Privacy

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What would Wisconsin AB855 do, and who would it affect?

Records current as of . The bill text and legislative history are linked below.