In a nutshell: Bavaria is calling for stricter penalties for sexualized deepfakes that deliberately target women and girls for humiliation.
Bavaria’s Justice Minister Georg Eisenreich (CSU) is demanding prison sentences of up to five years for sexualized deepfakes. A current draft law currently only provides for up to two years of imprisonment — Eisenreich believes this is insufficient.
Bavaria’s Justice Minister Georg Eisenreich argues that sexualized deepfakes have damage potential similar to bodily harm and should therefore be punished with prison sentences of up to five years. A current draft law currently only provides for up to two years of imprisonment — a framework that Eisenreich does not consider appropriate for serious cases.
In sexualized deepfakes, artificial intelligence is used to insert the faces of victims into photos or videos – such as pornographic sequences – or to artificially imitate voices. This creates the illusion that the affected individuals are performing actions or making statements that never actually took place. According to Eisenreich, such manipulations are often misused for harassment, the distribution of revenge porn, or fraudulent purposes – particularly to humiliate women and girls.
Actress Teresa Rizos (“Dr. Nice”) reported that when searching the internet, she found her face on a naked female body in a pornographic pose. She emphasizes that digital forms of abuse should be subject to criminal penalties just like their physical counterparts. The draft law provides that those affected can have accounts on which such content is distributed blocked.
Beyond the enhanced penalties, Eisenreich criticizes the current draft for not containing any regulation on identity fraud – a phenomenon in which criminals pose online as other people in order to damage their reputation or to enrich themselves unlawfully.
Source: www.it-daily.net · Published 24 June 2026
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