A court gave Ohio man Strahler 15 years for deepfakes.

It is the first sentence under a law pricing synthetic abuse images as crimes.

The law criminalizes non-consensual intimate images, real or AI-generated, and gives platforms 48 hours to remove them.

A separate federal appeals ruling last month complicates future prosecutions of AI-generated abuse images.

How each outlet framed it
404 Media leans critical
covers first Take It Down Act conviction: 700+ real/AI abuse images, 2,400 morphed/violent files targeting community minors

Sources: 404 Media