Late in 2015, California passed a law versus the belongings or circulation of kid sex abuse product (CSAM) that has actually been created by AI. The law entered into impact on January 1, and Sacramento authorities revealed the other day that they have actually currently jailed their very first suspect– a 49-year-old Pulitzer-prize-winning cartoonist called Darrin Bell.

The brand-new law, which you can check out here, states that AI-generated CSAM is hazardous, even without a real victim. In part, states the law, this is due to the fact that all sort of CSAM can be utilized to groom kids into believing sex with grownups is typical. The law songs out AI-generated CSAM for unique criticism due to the method that generative AI systems work.

“The creation of CSAM using AI is inherently harmful to children because the machine-learning models utilized by AI have been trained on datasets containing thousands of depictions of known CSAM victims,” it states, “revictimizing these real children by using their likeness to generate AI CSAM images into perpetuity.”

The law specifies “artificial intelligence” as “an engineered or machine-based system that varies in its level of autonomy and that can, for explicit or implicit objectives, infer from the input it receives how to generate outputs that can influence physical or virtual environments.”