Ban AI impersonation of real individuals without their consent

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Key insights

Supportive quotes most often emphasize two concrete harms: non-consensual intimate deepfakes and scams or fraud carried out through cloned voices and fabricated media.
The main disagreement is over scope, with supporters usually targeting unauthorized or deceptive impersonation and opponents warning that categorical bans can reach protected expression.
Quotes from technology companies, entertainment groups, labor organizations, medical associations, and governments all frame the issue as one involving both individual rights and public protection.
Some sources set a strong consent baseline by treating AI impersonation as non-consensual by default or by requiring explicit, informed, documented permission before a voice or likeness can be cloned.
A recurring theme is that legislation should be backed by implementation tools such as detection, removal, complaints processes, and platform accountability.

Arguments for

Identity control and consent

Supporters argue that a person's voice, face, image, name, likeness, and creative identity belong to that person, not to third parties or AI systems. They say everyone, not just celebrities, should have clear, enforceable power to say yes or no before an AI replica is made or used.

No one's name, image, likeness, voice, or creative work should be used by any third party, including AI models, without clear, documented consent.

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) · Jul 10, 2026 · full quote
Your identity is your IP in the age of AI, and every person deserves the right to decide how AI can or cannot use it.

Cate Blanchett · Jun 23, 2026 · full quote
Today's unanimous vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee is a major step forward for Americans who deserve to know that their image, voice, and likeness cannot be stolen or used without their permission. AI is moving fast, and that is exciting. But no one should have to worry tha…

María Elvira Salazar · Jun 22, 2026 · full quote
The National Association of Voice Actors proudly reaffirms its support for the NO FAKES Act. This bill represents the most meaningful federal effort to date to ensure that every American has clear, enforceable rights over their voice, image, name, and likeness in the age of artif…

National Association of Voice Actors (NAVA) · May 20, 2026 · full quote
When we were drafting this bill, its applicability to pillars of the creative community like Ms. McBride, Martina McBride, or to a movie star like Tom Hanks, its applicability to people who make a living off of their voice or likeness was clear. But Senator Blackburn and I agreed…

Christopher A. Coons · 2025 · full quote
People should not wake up to discover their face has become raw material for someone else's AI experiment.

J.B. Branch · Jul 10, 2026 · full quote

Fraud and public trust

Many quotes present AI impersonation as a consumer-protection problem, saying cloned voices and fabricated videos are used to scam families, seniors, patients, and businesses by posing as loved ones, officials, physicians, and trusted institutions. In this view, banning deceptive impersonation is necessary to protect the public and preserve trust.

The American Medical Association urges Congress to act quickly to establish strong safeguards against AI-generated impersonations of physicians. This threat is no longer theoretical. Scammers and bad actors currently use deepfake technology to prey on patients, promote dangerous …

John Whyte, MD, MPH · May 19, 2026 · full quote
As artificial intelligence becomes more advanced, criminals are exploiting it to scam hardworking Americans. We are seeing a disturbing rise in AI-generated voice clones and deepfake videos that convincingly impersonate loved ones, business executives, government officials and tr…

Vern Buchanan · 2026 · full quote
So AI-enabled scams have become far too common. We know that. It takes only a few seconds of audio to clone a voice. Criminals can pull the audio sample and personal backstory from public sources. Just last week, the FBI was forced to put out an alert about scams using AI-cloned …

Amy Klobuchar · 2025 · full quote
The threat of AI generated scams and deepfake fraud call for urgent, bipartisan action. The AI Fraud Accountability Act provides legal tools to protect consumers and hold bad actors accountable. Thank you, Senators Sheehy and Blunt Rochester and Representatives Buchanan and Soto …

Brad Smith · Mar 4, 2026 · full quote
NAB applauds Senators Blackburn and Coons for reintroducing the NO FAKES Act, which takes an important step toward protecting trusted broadcast journalists, local radio hosts and other on-air personalities from the unauthorized use of their voice, image or likeness. Broadcasters …

Curtis LeGeyt · May 20, 2026 · full quote
The TAKE IT DOWN Act is a strong first step in protecting against AI-enabled abuse, but Americans still lack full protection against AI-enabled impersonation and fraud. CCDH research shows Meta is allowing shocking deepfakes of beloved public figures like Oprah to trick seniors i…

Imran Ahmed · May 19, 2026 · full quote

Intimate-image abuse prevention

A major line of support focuses on non-consensual sexual and intimate deepfakes, which proponents describe as humiliating, exploitative, and deeply personal harms, including harm to children. They back prohibitions, rapid removal, and enforcement against AI-generated intimate content depicting real people without consent.

The new law adds a new provision in the AI act, prohibiting AI practices regarding the generation of non-consensual sexual and intimate content or child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Council of the European Union · Jun 29, 2026 · full quote
We have fast tracked work to bring into force legislation making illegal for anyone to create or request deepfake intimate images of adults without consent, which will become law tomorrow.

Government of the United Kingdom · Feb 5, 2026 · full quote
Taking down CFAKE.com halted the publication of non-consensual, sexually explicit digital forgeries that harmed the women they depicted. We were honored to be part of this coordinated international operation and to help halt this ongoing abuse. The Criminal Division stands ready …

A. Tysen Duva · Jun 12, 2026 · full quote
These seizures stopped a website that trafficked in humiliation, exploitation, and the violation of personal privacy on a massive scale. For the victims whose images were distributed without their consent, the harm is not virtual — it is deeply personal and often enduring. Those …

Robert Frazer · Jun 12, 2026 · full quote
The Duty to Make Certain Content Inaccessible will require the rapid removal of content that sexually victimizes a child or revictimizes a survivor; or intimate content communicated without consent, including deepfake sexual images.

Canadian Heritage · Jun 10, 2026 · full quote
Children should never have to face AI-generated sexually explicit deepfakes made of them. The NO FAKES Act will help protect them from this happening by prohibiting the use of their image or voice in AI-generated content.

Donna Rice Hughes · May 20, 2026 · full quote

Creator livelihoods and identity

Artists and performers say AI can mimic signature styles, replace performers' likenesses, and profit from the creative identities people spent years building. They argue the law should give creators meaningful recourse when AI is used to imitate or commercially exploit their work or persona without permission.

There are no existing frameworks that can defend against AI-driven style imitation, and in the age of AI, that gap leaves creators and artists increasingly vulnerable. The CREATOR Act closes that gap by establishing a federal right protecting visual artists' signature styles from…

Louise Pentland · Jun 3, 2026 · full quote
Artists, illustrators, and designers in every district are watching their livelihoods be undercut by AI tools deliberately impersonating them, but right now, the law has no answer for it. These are people who have spent a lifetime building their creative identity – they deserve p…

Beth Van Duyne · Jun 3, 2026 · full quote
Film and television production remains an integral part of New York’s economy, and that is why New York will continue to lead in protecting the workers who power this industry. As this legislation goes into effect, New York’s performers will be better protected from their likenes…

Michael Gianaris · Jun 9, 2026 · full quote
Seeing AI systems replicate the work and likeness of creators without consent is terrifying, especially for independent artists whose creativity is directly tied to their livelihood. The CREATOR Act is an important step toward giving creators legal protection and accountability w…

Alexsey Reyes · Jun 3, 2026 · full quote
CAA commends Senators Coons and Blackburn, along with Representatives Salazar and Dean, for their leadership in advancing the NO FAKES Act. This bipartisan effort marks a crucial step toward protecting artists from the unauthorized and exploitative use of their likeness, voice, a…

Bryan Lourd · May 20, 2026 · full quote
I applaud Senators Blackburn and Coons and Representatives Salazar and Dean for their commitment and leadership in addressing the urgent need to establish guardrails to prevent unauthorized, AI-generated deep fakes. As a bridge between the tech and creative industries, the NO FAK…

Robert Kyncl · May 20, 2026 · full quote

Clear rules for innovation

Some supporters say consent-based protections are not anti-technology but a way to set clear rules of the road for the AI era. They argue that balanced, harmonized safeguards can create legal certainty, protect people from exploitative uses, and still leave room for responsible innovation and growth.

The NO FAKES Act advances both of those goals. By protecting individuals from the unauthorized use of their voices, images, and likenesses, the bill helps ensure that Americans retain meaningful control over their identities and creative contributions while simultaneously support…

Council for Innovation Promotion · Jun 16, 2026 · full quote
The upcoming vote marks a significant opportunity to establish clear, balanced intellectual property protections for the age of artificial intelligence. As AI tools become more powerful and widely available, it is vital to protect creators, politicians, performers, and other indi…

Frank Cullen · Jun 16, 2026 · full quote
With today’s adoption, we are taking another decisive step towards a more competitive European Union. By providing greater legal certainty and ensuring a more harmonised implementation of AI rules across the EU, we are creating the conditions for innovation and growth to thrive i…

Marilena Raouna · Jun 29, 2026 · full quote
We’re all in on our support for the NO FAKES Act and appreciate the bipartisan leadership of Senators Coons, Blackburn, Klobuchar, and Tillis. As AI tools get more powerful, protections against the misuse of voice and likeness are critical. We’re encouraged to see this bill gaini…

Chris Lehane · May 20, 2026 · full quote
The American Bar Association commends Senators Coons and Blackburn for their continued bipartisan leadership toward developing a broad consensus around the NO FAKES Act. This is important, balanced legislation to guarantee the rights of artists, creators, and everyday people agai…

Michelle Behnke · May 20, 2026 · full quote
The Grammy organization applauds the reintroduction of the NO FAKES Act. This carefully crafted legislation strikes the right balance in protecting artists from the spread of harmful deepfakes online, while also acknowledging advancements in AI technology are a part of our future…

Harvey Mason Jr. · May 20, 2026 · full quote

Arguments against

Overbroad speech restrictions

One objection is that categorical bans on "deepfakes" would make it unlawful to create or share AI-generated content showing someone saying or doing something they did not in reality say or do. Critics warn that such broad prohibitions would restrict protected expression.

A handful of bills introduced this year seek to categorically ban “deepfakes.” In other words, these bills would make it unlawful to create or share AI-generated content depicting someone saying or doing something that the person did not in reality say or do. [...] These exampl…

John Coleman · Feb 13, 2025 · full quote

Protected storytelling uses

Another objection is that the same technology has legitimate, constitutionally protected uses in filmmaking and storytelling that do not require the depicted person's consent. From this view, laws in this area must be drafted very carefully so they do not chill or prohibit lawful creative uses.

It will take very careful drafting to accomplish the bill's goals without inadvertently chilling or even prohibiting legitimate, constitutionally protected uses of technology to enhance storytelling. I want to emphasize, this is technology that has entirely legitimate uses, uses …

Ben Sheffner · 2024 · full quote

Middle ground

Targeted bans with safeguards

Several supportive quotes favor protections aimed at misuse, unauthorized exploitation, and deceptive replicas while also preserving critical speech safeguards, legitimate use, and constitutional freedoms in storytelling. This approach treats drafting scope as central to the policy.

Disney continues to support the NO FAKES Act to provide protection against misuse of an individual’s image and voice while preserving critical speech safeguards for legitimate storytelling.

Disney · May 21, 2026 · full quote
The American Bar Association commends Senators Coons and Blackburn for their continued bipartisan leadership toward developing a broad consensus around the NO FAKES Act. This is important, balanced legislation to guarantee the rights of artists, creators, and everyday people agai…

Michelle Behnke · May 20, 2026 · full quote
The Independent Film & Television Alliance supports the NO FAKES Act and thanks lead sponsors Senators Coons, and Blackburn, and Representatives Salazar and Dean for their ongoing efforts to pass this bill. This important legislation establishes a federal standardized solution to…

Jackie Brenneman · May 20, 2026 · full quote
Universal Music Group applauds the reintroduction of the NO FAKES Act – landmark, bipartisan, bicameral legislation to address ‘deepfakes’ and other threats to individuals’ rights to control their own voice and visual likeness. At once, this legislation secures First Amendment pr…

Universal Music Group · May 20, 2026 · full quote
The rapid growth of AI-generated media makes it imperative to pair innovation with clear, practical safeguards. The updated NO FAKES Act reflects meaningful progress by aligning with how platforms actually operate, strengthening protections against unauthorized digital replicas, …

Kevin Guo · May 20, 2026 · full quote
CreativeFuture supports the NO FAKES Act, a thoughtful framework of AI guardrails that protects both individuals and members of our creative community. The bill establishes protections against the misuse of an individual’s likeness and voice while also ensuring creatives can cont…

Ruth Vitale · May 20, 2026 · full quote

Law plus platform enforcement

Some quotes suggest that legal bans should be paired with privacy-conscious technical standards, detection tools, complaints systems, and platform duties to prevent or remove deceptive AI impersonation. In this view, prohibition alone is only part of the response.

Standards like the C2PA specification must be built with privacy, and human rights at their center so they cannot become surveillance infrastructure. Alongside that, we need detection capabilities for deceptive AI that work globally.

Sam Gregory · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
The Board finds that AI-generated impersonation is non-consensual by default and should be added to the set of signals the company uses to establish lack of consent.

Oversight Board · Jun 23, 2026 · full quote
Amends the Online Safety Act 2021 to establish a complaints and enforcement regime for the non-consensual sharing of digitally altered or artificially generated audio or visual content that depicts a person’s face or voice without their consent.

Parliament of Australia · Jun 25, 2026 · full quote
Intermediaries and social media platforms [must] deploy reasonable technical measures to prevent the creation and dissemination of unlawful AI-generated content, including content that is obscene, misleading, impersonating individuals, or harmful to children.

Jitin Prasada · Mar 25, 2026 · full quote
Platforms have a responsibility to stop their AI tools from being used to harass, exploit, and endanger people. We must work together to remove this content, shut down abusers, and protect Americans and minors from harm.

Kirsten Gillibrand · Jan 16, 2026 · full quote
The TAKE IT DOWN Act, signed into law in May 2025, was a meaningful step in criminalizing non-consensual deepfake imagery and requiring platforms to remove it. [...] Expanding legislative scope to cover real-time audio manipulation, particularly on platforms used by minors, would…

Ben Colman · Apr 27, 2026 · full quote

The quotes portray a broad push for consent-based protections against AI impersonation, especially where the technology is used for sexual abuse, fraud, harassment, or commercial exploitation. The main counterargument is not that these harms are acceptable, but that sweeping bans can also cover protected expression and legitimate creative uses unless the rules are written narrowly. Many supportive quotes therefore pair bans with speech safeguards, clear consent standards, and platform enforcement.

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Government of Australia
Government of Australia speaking through its delegate at the UN Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance in July 2026.

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These workstreams build on existing Government actions including already legislated criminal offences to ban the sharing of non-consensual deepfake sexually explicit material, and work to ban nudify apps.
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Kathy Hochul
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AI Deceptive Practices Act, which enhances protections against unauthorized use of likeness/voice and the unauthorized dissemination of intimate images.
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People should not wake up to discover their face has become raw material for someone else's AI experiment.
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No one's name, image, likeness, voice, or creative work should be used by any third party, including AI models, without clear, documented consent.
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Peter Tsiamalili Jr.
Papua New Guinea’s Acting Minister for Information and Communications Technology in 2026.

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No Papua New Guinean should have their face, voice or identity stolen and weaponized for profit, humiliation, fraud, sexual exploitation, intimidation or deception.
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Standards like the C2PA specification must be built with privacy, and human rights at their center so they cannot become surveillance infrastructure. Alongside that, we need detection capabilities for deceptive AI that work globally.
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Óscar López Agueda
Spanish Minister for Digital Transformation and Civil Service.

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We have moved towards a prohibition of sexual deepfakes, deepfakes in child pornography within the legislation.
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Professor of Computer Science and Canada Research Chair in Persuasive Technology at Dalhousie University.

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AI can now be engineered to persuade and manipulate humans at scale using mechanisms that are fundamentally different from any communication technology we've seen in the past.
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By banning AI-generated or manipulated sexual deepfakes and AI-generated child sexual abuse material, we are sending a clear message that technological progress must always go hand in hand with the protection of our fundamental values.
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The new law adds a new provision in the AI act, prohibiting AI practices regarding the generation of non-consensual sexual and intimate content or child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
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Amends the Online Safety Act 2021 to establish a complaints and enforcement regime for the non-consensual sharing of digitally altered or artificially generated audio or visual content that depicts a person’s face or voice without their consent.
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This bipartisan legislation gives survivors the ability to hold perpetrators accountable and sends a clear message that exploiting someone’s likeness without consent will have consequences.
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Your identity is your IP in the age of AI, and every person deserves the right to decide how AI can or cannot use it.
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Independent body that reviews certain Meta content-moderation decisions and issues policy recommendations.

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The Board finds that AI-generated impersonation is non-consensual by default and should be added to the set of signals the company uses to establish lack of consent.
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This approach allows threats such as deepfakes and synthetic content to be controlled from the start through data governance, transparency, risk assessment and clear accountability for developers and those who deploy AI systems.
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Today's unanimous vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee is a major step forward for Americans who deserve to know that their image, voice, and likeness cannot be stolen or used without their permission. AI is moving fast, and that is exciting. But n...
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No one should have their voice, image, or likeness stolen and used in a fake video or AI-generated deepfake without their consent.
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The NO FAKES Act advances both of those goals. By protecting individuals from the unauthorized use of their voices, images, and likenesses, the bill helps ensure that Americans retain meaningful control over their identities and creative contribution...
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The upcoming vote marks a significant opportunity to establish clear, balanced intellectual property protections for the age of artificial intelligence. As AI tools become more powerful and widely available, it is vital to protect creators, politicia...
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These groundbreaking seizures are a massive win against deepfake pornography. The TAKE IT DOWN Act was a priority for First Lady Melania Trump to stop the abuse and exploitation of women and children. This is the first of many wins to stop these deep...
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These domain seizures mark a significant victory in the fight against deepfake pornography. The TAKE IT DOWN Act, championed by First Lady Melania Trump, gives us the tools we need to combat the abuse and exploitation of women and children through th...
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These seizures stopped a website that trafficked in humiliation, exploitation, and the violation of personal privacy on a massive scale. For the victims whose images were distributed without their consent, the harm is not virtual — it is deeply perso...
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Taking down CFAKE.com halted the publication of non-consensual, sexually explicit digital forgeries that harmed the women they depicted. We were honored to be part of this coordinated international operation and to help halt this ongoing abuse. The C...
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The Duty to Make Certain Content Inaccessible will require the rapid removal of content that sexually victimizes a child or revictimizes a survivor; or intimate content communicated without consent, including deepfake sexual images.
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New York State Senator representing Queens and sponsor of synthetic-performer protections.

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Film and television production remains an integral part of New York’s economy, and that is why New York will continue to lead in protecting the workers who power this industry. As this legislation goes into effect, New York’s performers will be bette...
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We support the bipartisan CONSENT Act, which empowers individuals to take legal action against those who knowingly send nonconsensual explicit content.
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By providing a federal private right of action and imposing penalties, this bill will help prevent sexual harassment and hold perpetrators accountable.
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Rachel Sheeran
Advocacy Co-Chair at the Graphic Artists Guild, representing visual artists on AI and intellectual-property policy.

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Artists deserve meaningful protections against the unauthorized use and exploitation of their distinctive styles, and they should have clear avenues for recourse when bad actors misuse generative AI systems to imitate or profit from their work withou...
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Andrew Scrivani
Photographer, author, and multimedia artist advocating legal protections against AI imitation of visual artists.

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AI can now mimic a photographer’s visual identity with alarming precision, and the law has not kept pace. The CREATOR Act would give visual artists a layer of protection they’ve needed for a long time.
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Alexsey Reyes
Houston-based photographer and multimedia artist advocating protections against AI replication of creators' work and likeness.

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Seeing AI systems replicate the work and likeness of creators without consent is terrifying, especially for independent artists whose creativity is directly tied to their livelihood. The CREATOR Act is an important step toward giving creators legal p...
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