Committee advances package to criminalize nonconsensual intimate images and update child‑exploitation law for AI-generated images

The Colorado House Judiciary Committee advanced Senate Bill 288 after a lengthy hearing and multiple amendments that limit the bill’s scope and add implementation details for AI‑generated images.

Sponsors said the bill updates existing laws that criminalize the nonconsensual disclosure of intimate images and expands child‑exploitation definitions to cover computer‑generated or AI‑altered images that are “identifiable” to a real child. Representative Soper, the bill co‑sponsor, said the measure would put Colorado on the same footing as other states and the federal government, and would allow aggravated penalties in certain circumstances.

The committee adopted a set of sponsor amendments that narrowed the child‑exploitation provision to material identifiable to an…