Reuters Practical Law's comprehensive regulatory analysis tracks federal legislation including the NO FAKES Act and No AI FRAUD Act while examining state-level deepfake regulation covering defamation, privacy breaches, and election interference. The assessment details how generative adversarial networks create increasingly sophisticated synthetic media through competing generator and discriminator systems, while highlighting artist advocacy like FKA twigs' Congressional testimony on identity control. This authoritative legal practice guide emphasizes that while no comprehensive federal deepfake legislation exists, the IOGAN Act requires NSF research support for detection standards as Congress considers broader regulatory frameworks addressing creation, disclosure, and dissemination of digital forgeries.