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State and federal laws in the U.S. regarding AI-generated sexual images of minors and adults, including criminalization and enforcement
The legal landscape for creating without distributing them is fragmented: , federal law and many state statutes now criminalize distribution or threats to distribute non-consensual intimate imagery an...
States now uniformly criminalize , but laws differ widely on remedies (criminal vs civil), mens rea requirements, severity of penalties, and whether and how they cover digitally altered images and pla...
Federal courts and lawmakers are wrestling with (CSAM): prosecutors treat such material as criminal under existing federal statutes in many cases, but constitutional limits from and recent district-co...
is a patchwork: federal law already treats AI-generated sexual depictions of minors as child sexual abuse material and bars their creation and distribution, while states vary widely in whether and how...
criminalizes many forms of when the image depicts a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct or is “virtually indistinguishable” from such a depiction, but enforcement hinges on several legal thresh...
Taylor Swift has not publicly filed a lawsuit specifically over the wave of sexually explicit AI-generated images that circulated in late January 2024; her team was reported to be “considering legal a...
Between 2023 and 2025 a small but consequential set of prosecutions tied to AI‑generated or AI‑modified child sexual abuse material (CSAM) reached federal and state courts: high‑profile federal matter...
Courts and legislatures have split responsibility and produced a patchwork of outcomes: many jurisdictions treat drawn or computer-generated visual depictions of minors in sexual contexts as criminal ...
law defines child sexual abuse material () as visual depictions of the sexual abuse or exploitation of children and has moved in recent years to criminalize creation, possession, distribution and—by a...
State laws against nonconsensual intimate imagery () form a patchwork: many states criminalize or create civil liability for distributing intimate images without consent, but counts and scopes vary ac...
The assembled reporting does not identify any specific action taken by the regarding or AI‑generated sexualized images; the available sources document state and federal responses broadly — including m...