ALBANY – Many bills will fall short of the legislative finish line this year, but approving a ban on AI-generated revenge porn will not be among them.

The proposed crackdown on fictitious intimate images comes as technology makes it become increasingly easy to add someone’s face to the body of someone else in order to publicly humiliate them.

“That can have a lifelong impact on someone because it’s on the web, it doesn’t come off easily. And so we needed to update the law,” Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D-Scarsdale) said of the bill she sponsored.

Assembly Democrats approved the bill on Tuesday with just days to go until the final scheduled day of the 2023 legislative session on Friday after the state Senate unanimously passed it on May 22.

Violators could face up to a year in jail if the bill gets signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, according to the legislative language.

Revenge porn generally means revealing pictures or videos that are released, typically onto the Internet, without the permission of all the people involved, whether or not they originally agreed to get photographed or recorded.

Paulin said she proposed the bill in February after reading about the increasing dangers of people using artificial intelligence to generate fake pornographic images.

“But once I introduced the bill, I heard from constituents and I heard from a broader base of people,” she said.

Passage of the bill comes nearly two years after ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law a broader ban on the unlawful publication of intimate images.

A Hochul spokesman said she will review the newly-passed legislation before deciding to sign or veto the bill, which would take effect 60 days after being approved.

The vast majority of deep fake videos online are nonconsensual pornography, the MIT Technology Review reported in 2021.

State Sen. Michelle Hinchey (D-Kingston) did not provide comment.