New Law Increases Penalty for Violence Against Women Using Artificial Intelligence: Understand the Details and Implications
The new Brazilian law (Law No. 15,123/2025) increases the penalty for the crime of psychological violence against women when committed using artificial intelligence or similar technologies that alter the victim's image or voice. The law increases the prison sentence by half and aims to combat the use of technologies like deepfakes to threaten, humiliate, and blackmail women. AI can be used for cyberstalking and other forms of psychological abuse, highlighting the legal and technical challenges in punishing these crimes and providing a global overview of laws and initiatives against online gender violence.