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Laws regarding child sexual abuse material (CSAM) are being applied to AI-generated content, with courts considering whether it is protected by the First Amendment or if it is criminal.
Federal and state statutes draw clear legal lines between possessing downloaded files and streaming or transmitting CSAM: possession crimes focus on knowing control of stored material, while streaming...
Federal law criminalizes production, distribution, receipt and possession of child sexual abuse material () with statutory mandatory minimums for many offenses but generally no mandatory minimum for s...
Federal and lower courts are starting to draw a sharp line between AI- or computer-generated sexual images that do not involve real children and material that is based on or depicts actual minors, wit...
Reporting shows a patchwork: at least 20 states have enacted laws that expressly prohibit AI‑generated sexual images of minors, but many state codes remain unmodified and therefore do not explicitly m...