Germany plans to crack down on sexualised deepfakes, the government said Friday, as a prominent TV personality accused her ex-husband of spreading AI-generated pornographic images of her online. German Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig will "very shortly" present a draft bill to punish the creation and distribution of sexualised deepfakes, ministry spokesman Eike Hosemann said. Hosemann said "the aim is to make the production and distribution of such deepfakes a criminal offence", adding that Germany was "lagging behind technological developments in this area". Writing on her Instagram account, she repeated her accusation of "sexualised violence" against her former husband. Hubig, herself a former judge and prosecutor, told Der Spiegel that sexualised online crimes had a "devastating" impact on victims.

Source: The Local March 20, 2026 15:19 UTC