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Generates images with AI

generates_images

Your app uses artificial intelligence (AI) to produce pictures, rather than only publishing what a person photographed or drew.

  • scope code
  • in the registry since 1.7
  • 211 laws in 111 jurisdictions name it

What triggers it

The lint's definition. It makes pictures with an AI model that reach its users or the public: photographs, artwork, graphics or edits of them. Somebody else's model counts; output only its own team reads is not this.

This covers an image generator, an AI avatar or logo maker, and a tool that edits or retouches a photograph with a model.

It implies Generates content with AI, so the rules written for every kind of AI-generated content reach it too.

What does not

A picture a person made that your app only resizes or crops does not count.

Often confused with Generates content with AI and Generates video with AI.

The law it brings into scope

The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of . The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.

Area of lawLawsJurisdictions
AI law

Tell people when they are dealing with an AI system or its output, and control the uses the law calls high-risk.

 205 108
Privacy law

Have a legal basis for personal data, honor people's rights over it, and report a breach.

 5 4
Content moderation law

Act on notice of unlawful content, explain moderation decisions, and report on them.

 1 1

This activity implies Generates content with AI, so every law that names that activity reaches it too. These areas of law reach it only that way:

  • Cybersecurity law: 109 laws in 74 jurisdictions, through Generates content with AI

    Build software securely, handle reported flaws, and report incidents on a deadline.

  • Product and AI liability law: 27 laws in 25 jurisdictions, through Generates content with AI

    Answer in damages when defective software or an AI system causes harm.

  • Reuse law: 7 laws in 4 jurisdictions, through Generates content with AI

    Reproduce other publishers' content only as far as an exception or a license allows.

  • Scraping law: 1 law in 1 jurisdiction, through Generates content with AI

    Stay within computer-access law, a site's terms, and the copyright in what is copied.

Counterparties that usually come with it

  • a model provider whose API writes the output

A component that cannot run as documented without one of these names it in its ACTIVITIES.md under talks_to, with required: true. That party's jurisdiction then joins the run of every product that uses the component, and the finding says why it is there. A default the deployer can change is asked about, never added. Talking to a party never makes a product that party.

In a declaration

A library or framework that makes this possible enables it; an application whose shipped code does it performs it.

For a library

activities: - id: generates_images mentioned: enables enabled: requires_configuration where: [<the module that carries it>] note: <one sentence>

For an application

activities: - id: generates_images mentioned: performs enabled: by_default where: [<the module that carries it>] note: <one sentence: what it does, and the kind of law it attracts>

History

In the registry since version 1.7, .

Added for TAKE IT DOWN Act (United States), the law that turns on it.

In the glossary: Generates images with AI.

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