Overview
- Bavarian Justice Minister Georg Eisenreich has publicly demanded a maximum prison term of up to five years for creating or sharing sexualized deepfakes and called for a new offence for identity misuse.
- Actress Teresa Rizos described finding a pornographic deepfake of her online and used her testimony at a Munich press event to highlight the shock, shame and reporting barriers victims face.
- A federal referentenentwurf from the Justice Ministry would criminalize sexualized deepfakes but proposes a lower maximum sentence of two years, leaving the law still under negotiation.
- Eisenreich also pressed for stronger duties on online platforms to remove manipulated content and pointed to Bavaria’s Central Cybercrime Office in Bamberg plus special public prosecutor units as capacity to pursue major cases.
- Advocates and officials note that roughly 90 percent of AI-fabricated images and videos appear in pornographic contexts and that the issue has been raised in the Bundesrat since 2024, so changes to federal law remain the next decisive step.