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California targets sexual deepfakes and requires AI disclosures

California signed laws expanding remedies for nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes and requiring large generative-AI providers to offer detection tools, provenance disclosures, and embedded content information.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM40confidence 99/100

Why it moved the index

The package combined victim remedies with provider-side provenance and detection duties, directly addressing scaled synthetic-media abuse while leaving real-world enforcement and watermark robustness as limitations.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 40 · confidence 99

    New September 2024 synthetic-media governance event distinct from the election and performer statutes.

    12 Aug 2026
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  1. DoomBench assesses “California targets sexual deepfakes and requires AI disclosures” as evidence moving away from doom, with magnitude 40 and confidence 99 out of 100 in the governance and control category.

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