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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) joins forces with celebrity Paris Hilton Pushing again for her bill to restrict non-consensual deepfake porn Generated by artificial intelligence.
Ocasio-Cortez and Hilton held a news conference with Ocasio-Cortez’s Republican co-sponsor, Florida Rep. Laurel Lee.
The legislation, known as the “RESIST Act,” would create a civil cause of action for individuals who create deepfake AI porn without consent.
“Since the public release of AI tools, we’ve seen an absolute explosion of AI-generated images of sexual harassment victims and children,” she said, noting that the vast majority of AI-generated deepfake images are non-consensual pornography.
“I and many people here have spoken about our experiences being targeted by AI deepfake porn,” she said. “This is not just a coalition of legislators, but a coalition of survivors of sexual harassment and in some cases survivors of abuse and assault.”
The bill passed the Senate earlier this month with unanimous consent led by Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). House Speaker Mike Johnson also supports the legislation.
Hilton, for her part, relayed how similar the deepfake AI porn was to a sex tape that leaked when she was 19 in the 2000s.
“People call it a scandal,” Hilton told reporters. “No. It was abuse. There were no laws to protect me. There weren’t even words to describe what I was going through.”
Hilton said the prospects for women and girls are far worse than what she experienced at the time.
“Before someone has to betray your trust and steal something real,” she said. “Now, all it takes is a computer and the imagination of a stranger.”
Hilton said there are more than 100,000 deepfake images of her online. Ocasio-Cortez Also talks about being a victim of deepfake AI porn.
But proposed legislation has stalled in the past. In 2024, the bill unanimously passed the Senate before the end of the last Congress.
Ocasio-Cortez said she had discussed the legislation with Johnson and told reporters their time was limited in the last Congress.
The press conference included advocates and other survivors as well as other female lawmakers from both parties, including MAGA members such as Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, New York Rep. Claudia Tenney and South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace.
Luna and Ocasio-Cortez are also working on other legislation, including banning members of Congress and their spouses from trading stocks and capping credit card interest at 10%, a proposal backed by President Donald Trump.
“I mean, you have to be able to put pressure on your own party,” Luna told independentsaying Ocasio-Cortez is doing what Luna did for Republicans.
Still, Ocasio-Cortez made no attempt to take credit for the legislation.
“I think we work well together on this, and I think it’s not a matter of individual credit, it’s a matter of the team,” she said. “I think bipartisanship is very important. Of course, Republicans have a majority in the House.”
But the press conference could not escape the ongoing battle in the House of Representatives.
Mace, perhaps the loudest anti-trans voice in Congress, posted a video of Rep. Sarah McBride, the first person elected to Congress, saying McBride “does not belong to us and he will never be one of us.”