Alaska digital reality posture profile

Alaska Synthetic Explicit Content law summary

As of mid-2026, Alaska has no enacted law that specifically reaches AI-generated or deepfake sexual imagery, but a bill to create one has cleared the House. House Bill 47, sponsored by Rep. Sarah Vance (R-Homer), would make it a felony to create or share AI-generated child sexual abuse material — treating synthetic depictions of a minor the same as an image of a real child — and would also criminalize non-consensual synthetic sexual images of real adults and harassment using a "forged digital likeness" (deepfake). It passed the Alaska House unanimously (39-0) on February 27, 2026, and is pending in the Senate, where a committee removed the bill's broader social-media provisions in April 2026. Until it is signed, Alaska prosecutors work from existing child-exploitation and revenge-porn statutes, which the state Attorney General has publicly noted were not written with deepfakes in mind.