The Take It Down Act, signed into law by President Trump on May 19, 2025, represents a rare example of bipartisanship in the context of AI regulation. Passing by large margins in both the House and the Senate, legislators on both sides of the aisle, as well as President Trump, agreed that federal regulation was required to reign in the proliferation of explicit deepfakes, many of which are AI-generated. Although the law regulates both artificial deepfakes and genuine intimate imagery published without consent, the Take It Down Act is clearly a targeted response to the potential harms posed by increasingly sophisticated AI image models.
Ben Mishkin is a Member in Cozen O’Connor’s Technology, Privacy & Data Security practice.
