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Subcommittee advances bill criminalizing obscene visual depictions of minors including AI-generated images
Summary
House Bill 3045, which would criminalize obscene visual depictions of minors — including AI-generated images — and adjust registry procedures, was reported favorably as amended by the Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Special Law Subcommittee on a 4-0 vote.
House Bill 3045, a proposal to criminalize the creation, distribution, and possession of obscene visual depictions of minors — including AI-generated images and other electronically produced media — received a favorable report as amended from the Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Special Law Subcommittee by a 4-0 roll-call vote.
The bill, as explained to the panel, would treat as criminal the production, distribution, receipt, or possession (with intent to distribute) of obscene visual representations depicting a minor, including fictitious imagery, when the material is obscene under the law’s stated criteria: that the material appeals to prurient interests, offends community standards, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value, and is not otherwise constitutionally protected. The chair summarized…
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