Overview

• The proposal by Deputy Armando Corona Arvizu would add Articles 211 Bis 8 and 211 Bis 9 to the Federal Penal Code to criminalize nonconsensual AI-manipulated images, audio, and video.
• Penalties outlined are three to six years in prison and fines of 300 to 600 days, with increases when the victim is a minor, a person with disabilities, a public official, or when distribution is massive or causes demonstrable harm.
• Rights organizations, including Artículo 19, warn the broad terms such as “ridicule” and “damage to reputation” lack satire and parody safeguards and risk censoring political criticism and journalism.
• Morena coordinator Ricardo Monreal said he would vote against the measure and asserted it will not pass in the Chamber of Deputies, while PAN and PRI leaders also condemned it as an attack on free expression.
• Following the controversy, the sponsoring deputy restricted his social media accounts, and the initiative remains only a proposal without legislative advancement.