Victims of explicit deepfakes will soon be able to take legal action against people who create them

New York (CNN) — In recent years, people ranging from Taylor Swift and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to high school girls around the country have been victims of non-consensual, explicit deepfakes — images where a person’s face is superimposed on a nude body using artificial intelligence.

Now, after months of outcry, a federal law criminalizing the sharing of those images is finally coming.