Michigan digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for Michigan, 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
Reactive-leaning 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
Reactive-leaning
Breadth
Narrow tracked coverage
Michigan Synthetic Explicit Content law summary
Based on direct statute tracking.
Michigan makes it both a crime and grounds for a civil lawsuit to create or share a sexually explicit "deepfake" of a real, identifiable person without consent. The Protection from Intimate Deep Fakes Act (House Bills 4047 and 4048) was signed by Gov. Whitmer on August 26, 2025 and took immediate effect as Public Act 11 of 2025 and its penal-code companion; the law defines a "deep fake" as a technologically-created, realistic depiction, so AI-generated intimate imagery is squarely covered, with a first offense a misdemeanor and felony exposure for repeat or aggravating conduct. Separately, Michigan's child sexually abusive material statute (MCL 750.145c) already reaches a "computer or computer-generated image" that "appears to include a child," so AI-generated child sexual abuse material counts even when no real child was filmed. As of August 2025, both synthetic-CSAM and non-consensual intimate-deepfake conduct are covered by Michigan law.
Educational summary only
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
- Michigan enacted a dedicated deepfake statute (PA 11 of 2025, immediate effect 2025-08-26) reaching realistic synthetic intimate media, and its CSAM statute (MCL 750.145c) explicitly covers "computer or computer-generated" depictions that "appear to include a child."
What to do next
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Citation-grade sources
Official sources
3Michigan Legislature — Enrolled House Bill 4047 (Protection from Intimate Deep Fakes Act)
Official textCitation: Enrolled HB 4047 enacts the 'Protection from Intimate Deep Fakes Act,' defining a deep fake as a technologically-created realistic depiction of a person and ordering the act to take immediate effect.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceMichigan Legislature — House Bill 4047 of 2025 legislative history (Public Act 11 of 2025)
Official textCitation: Bill history shows HB 4047 approved by the Governor on 08/26/2025 and assigned PA 11 of 2025 with immediate effect.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceMichigan Legislature — MCL 750.145c (child sexually abusive material definitions)
Official textCitation: MCL 750.145c defines child sexually abusive material to include a 'computer or computer-generated image ... which is of a child or appears to include a child engaging in a listed sexual act,' reaching fully synthetic depictions of minors.
Observed: 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
Michigan Legislature — Enrolled House Bill 4047 (Protection from Intimate Deep Fakes Act)
Michigan Legislature — House Bill 4047 of 2025 legislative history (Public Act 11 of 2025)
Michigan Legislature — MCL 750.145c (child sexually abusive material definitions)
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