1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images And Non-Consensual Edits Act of 2024 or as the DEFIANCE Act of 2024 . 2. Civil action relating to disclosure of intimate images (a) Definitions Section 1309(a) of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 ( 15 U.S.C. 6851(a) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (2), by inserting competent, after conscious, ; (2) by redesignating paragraphs (5) and (6) as paragraphs (6) and (7), respectively; (3) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (5); (4) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following: (3) Digital forgery The term digital forgery means any intimate visual depiction of an identifiable individual created through the use of software, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or any other computer-generated or technological means, including by adapting, modifying, manipulating, or altering an authentic visual depiction, to appear to a reasonable person to be indistinguishable from an authentic visual depiction of the individual, regardless of whether the visual depiction indicates, through a label or some other form of information published with the visual depiction, that the visual depiction is not authentic. ; (5) in paragraph (5), as so redesignated— (A) by striking (5) DEPICTED and inserting (5) IDENTIFIABLE ; and (B) by striking depicted individual and inserting identifiable individual ; and (6) in paragraph (6)(A), as so redesignated— (A) in clause (i), by striking ; or and inserting a semicolon; (B) in clause (ii)— (i) in subclause (I), by striking individual; and inserting individual; or ; and (ii) by striking subclause (III); and (C) by adding at the end the following: (iii) an identifiable individual engaging in sexually explicit conduct