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AI-generated child sexual abuse material laws

Laws and regulations regarding AI-generated child sexual abuse material

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Jan 19, 2026

Which countries explicitly include computer‑generated or AI‑created sexual images of minors in their criminal statutes?

A small but growing set of jurisdictions have moved to spell out that synthetic child sexual images — including those made by AI — fall within criminal law: notably the United Kingdom’s recent Crime a...

Jan 6, 2026

I learned that someone looked at csam on the dark web, but they did not produce, distribution, possess, or receive it. They just browsed to it in a browser. Is that illegal?

The act of using Tor or another dark‑web browser to access hidden sites is widely reported as not illegal in itself in jurisdictions like the United States , but interacting with illegal content on th...