A Louisiana woman went to Baton Rouge police this month after a co-worker allegedly pulled up fake nude pictures of her on his phone during their drive to work. He also showed her an AI-made video that appeared to show the two of them having sex. None of it ever happened, and she never agreed to any of it.

She had the presence of mind to record his screen with her own phone, and that evidence led to a felony charge under Louisiana's unlawful deepfakes law, according to WAFB. Investigators say his text messages point to an online site that generated the images and kept copies in the cloud.

Most victims will never get that kind of proof. As reported, the current law targets people who share, show, or distribute sexual deepfakes. That may leave a gap for someone who quietly builds a collection of fake explicit images of a co-worker, a neighbor, or an ex. Meanwhile, websites that turn an ordinary photo into a nude image in seconds remain easy to find.

Louisiana has already led on this. Lawmakers made sexual deepfakes a crime in 2023, and the 2026 Ivy Daniels Act added protections for children and classroom lessons on AI image crimes. Adults deserve that same strong protection, at work, on the road, and online. This is not a left or right issue. It is about consent and safety.

Governor Jeff Landry and the Louisiana Legislature can act in the next session. They should make creating or keeping nonconsensual sexual deepfakes a crime on its own, hold the websites and apps that produce them accountable with real penalties, and make clear that deepfakes of a co-worker count as workplace sexual harassment.

Sign the petition to tell Louisiana leaders to stop sexual deepfakes before another woman finds her face on a fake she never agreed to.