This article fails to analyse the wording of the law, or cover any dissenting opinions. It’s taking the Australian government at face value.
The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, is expected to introduce legislation on Wednesday to create a new criminal offence of sharing, without consent, sexually explicit images that have been digitally created using artificial intelligence or other forms of technology.
After that it will be debated, modified, and have to pass through two houses of government before it becomes "Law" and even then it will still have to pass through the "live testing" of actual charges and a non trivial court case on a real world application.