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Senate concurs with House on bill criminalizing obscene images depicting minors, including AI-generated depictions
Summary
The Texas Senate on May 26 concurred in House amendments to Senate Bill 20, creating a new criminal offense aimed at possession or promotion of obscene visual material that appears to depict a minor, and adding an amendment barring use of images of children to train AI models for such imagery.
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate on Monday moved to concur in House amendments to Senate Bill 20, a measure creating a new criminal offense for possession or promotion of obscene visual material that appears to depict a child and covering depictions made with animation or artificial intelligence. Senator Flores moved the concurrence; the motion carried and the Senate adopted the house amendments.
The bill “creates a new criminal offense for the possession or promotion of obscene visual material that appears to depict a child,” Senator Flores said on the…
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