Louisiana digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for Louisiana, showing where public legislative coverage currently looks more proactive, more reactive, broader, or thinner. It is a structural posture signal based on public disclosures, not a political or legal grade.
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Not legal advice. Laws and enforcement change frequently. Verify current official statutes, regulations, and counsel where needed.
Overall state posture signal
Mixed posture with narrow tracked coverage.
Based on six tracked topics and public disclosures.
Posture meter
Lean and breadth across six tracked topics. Not a quality or political score.
Lean
Mixed posture
Breadth
Narrow tracked coverage
Louisiana Synthetic Explicit Content law summary
Based on direct statute tracking.
In Louisiana, it is a crime to create a sexually explicit "deepfake" of a real person without their consent, and the penalties climb sharply when the depicted person is a minor. La. R.S. 14:73.13 ("Unlawful deepfakes"), enacted by Act 457 of 2023 (SB 175, signed June 28, 2023, effective August 1, 2023), reaches any audio or visual media that is created, altered, or digitally manipulated to falsely appear authentic — covering AI-generated and computer-altered content, not only real photographs. Creating or possessing a deepfake showing a minor in sexual conduct carries 5 to 20 years, while distributing an explicit deepfake of any person without consent carries 10 to 30 years; the definition carves out clearly disclosed satire, parody, and newsworthy material. As of mid-2026, based on public records, state lawmakers were weighing further bills to expand Louisiana's child-sexual-abuse-material statutes to explicitly include AI-generated depictions.
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Not legal advice. Laws and enforcement change frequently. Verify current official statutes, regulations, and counsel where needed.
Why this status
Based on direct statute tracking.
What this means
- Louisiana's enacted deepfake statute (R.S. 14:73.13, Act 457 of 2023) specifically criminalizes creating and distributing digitally manipulated sexually explicit media depicting minors and non-consenting adults, and has been in effect since August 1, 2023.
What to do next
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Citation-grade sources
Official sources
2La. R.S. 14:73.13 — Unlawful deepfakes (official Louisiana Legislature statute)
Official textCitation: Official statute page for R.S. 14:73.13 'Unlawful deepfakes', enacted by Acts 2023, No. 457, §1; criminalizes creating/possessing deepfakes of minors (5-20 yrs) and distributing explicit deepfakes without consent (10-30 yrs).
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceLouisiana SB 175 (2023 Regular Session) — official BillInfo (Act 457)
Official textCitation: Official bill record for SB 175: abstract 'Criminalizes deepfakes involving minors and defines the rights to digital image and likeness'; assigned Act 457, signed June 28, 2023, effective August 1, 2023.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open source
Context / secondary sources
1La. R.S. 14:73.13 codified text (FindLaw)
Discovery leadObserved: 2026-07-07Open source
Provenance
Source basis
Official/public links curated
Confidence
High confidence
Review scope
Review centered on currently tracked state-level law
Last reviewed
2026-07-07 · 7 July 2026
References
La. R.S. 14:73.13 — Unlawful deepfakes (official Louisiana Legislature statute)
Louisiana SB 175 (2023 Regular Session) — official BillInfo (Act 457)
La. R.S. 14:73.13 codified text (FindLaw)
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