The Short Version
This claim is false. While some laws target specific categories of deepfakes — particularly nonconsensual intimate imagery (UK criminal law, U.S. TAKE IT DOWN Act) and certain election-related uses — no jurisdiction has enacted a blanket prohibition on creating or distributing AI-generated deepfakes depicting real people. The EU AI Act primarily requires transparency and labeling, not prohibition. Many deepfake uses (satire, commentary, entertainment, consensual content) remain legal across most jurisdictions. The claim dramatically overstates the scope of existing regulation.