The Indiana Citizen
Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is urging lawmakers to criminalize making false claims about the creation or distribution of artificial intelligence-generated pornography, saying in a social media video that his office was the “victim” of such claims in a highly-publicized scandal last year.
However, a former top Beckwith aide told The Indiana Citizen on Wednesday she is standing by her assertion that she saw two of the Republican lieutenant governor’s aides view a digitally altered topless video of a state representative’s wife while in Beckwith’s Statehouse offices.
“There’s no denying what I saw,” former Beckwith senior adviser Erin Sheridan said. “He should pursue that (legislation) and try to press charges against me — then, at the very least, we might be able to get to the bottom of it.”
Beckwith’s comments came Tuesday in a 20-minute long, “Ask Micah Anything” video posted to social media. In the video, Beckwith says he “wholeheartedly” supports two bipartisan bills aimed at criminalizing the creation and distribution of AI-generated pornography, while also arguing the legislation should be expanded to punish false accusations.
House Bill 1182 and House Bill 1183 seek to address the growing use of AI tools to create realistic sexual images that appear to depict real people. Lawmakers backing the measures say existing Indiana law does not adequately cover computer-generated sexual images that are not based on real photographs. The bills have not...
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