For purposes of this chapter:
- (1) “Consent” means affirmative, conscious, and voluntary authorization by an individual with legal capacity to give authorization.
(2) “Deep fake” means synthetic media where 1 or both of the following applies:
- a. The synthetic media appears to a reasonable person to depict a real individual saying or doing something that did not actually occur.
- b. The synthetic media provides a reasonable person a fundamentally different understanding or impression of the appearance, action, or speech than a reasonable person would have from an unaltered, original version of the image, audio recording, or video recording.
- (3) “Depicted individual” means an individual whose body is shown in whole or in part in an intimate image.
- (4) “Disclosure” means transfer, publication, or distribution to another person. “Disclose” has a corresponding meaning.
(5) “Identifiable” means recognizable by a person other than the depicted individual from any of the following:
- a. An intimate image itself.
- b. An intimate image and identifying characteristic displayed in connection with the intimate image.
- (6) “Identifying characteristic” means information that may be used to identify a depicted individual.
- (7) “Individual” means a human being.
(8) “Intimate image” means a photograph, film, video recording, or other similar medium that shows 1 or more of the following:
- a. The uncovered genitals, pubic area, anus, or female post-pubescent nipple of a depicted individual.
- b. A depicted individual engaging in or being subjected to sexual conduct.
- (9) “Person” means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity.
(10) “Sexual conduct” includes any of the following:
- a. Masturbation.
- b. Genital, anal, or oral sex.
- c. Sexual penetration of, or with, an object.
- d. Bestiality.
- e. The transfer of semen onto a depicted individual.
- (11) “Synthetic media” means an intimate image that has been created or intentionally manipulated with the use of generative adversarial network techniques or other digital technology in a manner to create a realistic but false image, audio, or video.
82 Del. Laws, c. 286, § 1; 84 Del. Laws, c. 479, § 1