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Australia makes sharing non-consensual sexual deepfakes a federal crime

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Source: Federal Register of Legislation: Criminal Code Amendment (Deepfake Sexual Material) Act 2024 (No. 78, 2024)Also reported by Gilbert + Tobin

The Criminal Code Amendment (Deepfake Sexual Material) Act 2024 received assent on 2 September 2024 and commenced the next day. It makes it an offence to use a carriage service to transmit sexual material depicting an adult without consent, whether the material is real or created or altered with technology such as AI, with a maximum of six years in prison. An aggravated offence carrying seven years applies to the person who created or altered the material, or to repeat Online Safety Act offenders.

Why it matters

People who create or share sexual deepfakes of adults in Australia face federal prison terms, and police gained an offence that covers AI-generated material directly.

When
2 Sep 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0062
Who
Parliament of Australia, Attorney-General’s Department
Rules involved

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Federal Register of Legislation and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Federal Register of Legislation

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0062: “Australia makes sharing non-consensual sexual deepfakes a federal crime.” wheresthe.ai, 2 Sep 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/au-deepfake-sexual-material-act-2024-09/ (source: Federal Register of Legislation: Criminal Code Amendment (Deepfake Sexual Material) Act 2024 (No. 78, 2024)).

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