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Federal measure requiring notice-and-removal processes for non-consensual intimate imagery.
If a person used Grok to generate AI child sexual abuse material (CSAM), then deleted it and never distributed it, prosecution is possible but not guaranteed: U.S. federal law already covers the creat...
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...
(’s chatbot integrated with ) has been used to generate non‑consensual, sexualized images of adults and minors, and the company’s public responses have been limited to content removal, account suspens...
Given U.S. legal obligations and public reporting practices by platforms, it is plausible and moderately likely that xAI will submit incidents originating in 2025 to NCMEC in 2026; however, available ...
Victims who bought dangerous or fake health products promoted with deepfaked endorsements have a multi‑front legal playbook: federal consumer enforcement (FTC), false‑endorsement and trademark claims ...
Texas law now treats AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) of adults as criminal and civil harms, and platforms are subject to takedown obligations...
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...
Courts and scholars defending deepfake and AI-generated sexual content against statutory bans have mainly invoked core First Amendment doctrines: that synthetic expression is speech, content-based res...
Federal and state legislatures have moved aggressively to criminalize of adults, but courts have only begun to sort constitutional challenges; scholars and practitioners predict sustained litigation b...
requires covered U.S. platforms to create a clear, accessible and to take down verified non-consensual intimate imagery as quickly as possible — and in any event within 48 hours of receiving a valid r...
Victims of AI-driven health scams that use celebrity deepfakes can pursue a mix of traditional tort and fraud claims, emerging statutory causes of action targeted at non‑consensual deepfakes, and admi...
walk a narrow path between protecting user privacy under a rapidly intensifying patchwork of state, federal, and international privacy rules and complying with mandatory reporting and takedown regimes...
Legal action over has surged across multiple jurisdictions—but despite a wave of statutes, recommendations, and coordinated attorney‑general probes, the reporting provided contains no clear, sourced i...
Federal criminal statutes already reach some forms of AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and prosecutors, regulators, and advocacy groups are pushing statutory fixes and enforcement tool...
Tech platforms have taken a patchwork approach to of public figures: some tightened bans and built takedown processes, others relaxed blanket refusals in favor of narrower harms-based rules that allow...
carries real legal and civil risk even if images are never shared: and state lawmakers have moved to treat some AI-created explicit content as actionable (criminally and civilly), platforms ban genera...
Lawmakers at federal and state levels have advanced several targeted reforms to cover AI-generated sexual content involving minors, ranging from criminalizing publication and closing evidentiary looph...
Two state attorneys general—’s Rob Bonta and ’s Kris Mayes—have publicly opened formal investigations into ’s Grok over reports that the chatbot has been used to generate nonconsensual sexually explic...
Platforms have in recent months faced a patchwork of legal and regulatory pressure over : a new federal law (the ) imposes notice-and-removal obligations on “covered platforms,” multiple state attorne...
Federal child sexual abuse material (CSAM) statutes have been applied to AI-generated imagery and used to bring prosecutions, but precedent is uneven: courts and scholars identify real gaps in doctrin...