Federal prosecutors have filed the first criminal charges under the Take It Down Act, a 2025 law that makes it a federal offense to create or distribute non-consensual AI-generated intimate imagery. Two men face charges under the legislation, which was signed into law earlier this year and represents one of the first major federal efforts to address the growing problem of AI-generated deepfake pornography. The Act requires platforms to remove such content upon request and criminalizes its creation and distribution without consent. The charges signal that federal authorities intend to actively enforce the new law, potentially setting legal precedents for how AI-generated harmful content is prosecuted in the United States going forward.
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