Hawaii
AI Policy Overview
Hawaii lawmakers have yet to prioritize artificial intelligence policies broadly. However, in 2021 they enaced a law making it a criminal offiense to disclose, or threaten to disclose, a deepfake image of an individual that is nude or engaged in sexual conduct.
Deepfakes
Hawaii enacted a law (HI SB 309) in 2021 that applies a criminal offense of violation of privacy when a "person intentionally creates or discloses or threatens to disclose an image or video of a composite fictitious person depicted in the nude, or engaged in sexual conduct, that includes the recognizable physical characteristics of a known person so that the image or video appears to depict the known person and not a composite fictitious person, with intent to substantially harm the depicted person with respect to that person's health, safety, business, calling, career, education, financial condition, reputation, or personal relationships, or as an act of revenge or retribution."
Legislative & Regulatory History
2021 - Hawaii enacted HI SB 309, which makes it a crime to intentonally create or disclose a deepfake depicting a real person that is nude or engaged in sexual conduct.