The first person has been convicted under the new federal anti-AI deepfake law, the Take It Down Act. It’s a landmark moment for supporters of the law and the growing movement to protect people, particularly children, from dangerous and abusive AI-created content.
President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act into law in 2025. It was a first-of-its-kind federal law that specifically dealt with AI-generated deepfakes, an increasingly important issue with the rapidly improving quality of AI-generated images and video. The law criminalizes the creation and sharing of nonconsensual intimate imagery, made with computer editing or AI, and it requires tech companies like Meta and Google to create processes for people to request that images containing their likeness be removed from their platforms.
James Strahler II, 37, of Ohio, was arrested in June 2025 on federal charges of cyberstalking, publishing or sharing digital forgeries of adult sex abuse material and producing
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