Duty LXD-5521
Generates images with AI, in Montana
Impediment of Identity Theft, record destruction dutysince 2 lines
Mont. Code Ann. ยง 30-14-1703 · Read the law's page
- This binds any business holding a customer's records containing personal information within its custody or control, a business being any sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association, or other group, whether or not organized to operate at a profit, including an entity that destroys records, but not an industry regulated under Title 33 of the Montana Code.
- Take all reasonable steps to destroy, or arrange for the destruction of, a customer's records containing personal information once they are no longer necessary to be retained, by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the personal information in those records to make it unreadable or undecipherable.
Sexual abuse of children, computer-generated child pornographysince 1 line
Mont. Code Ann. 45-5-625 · Read the law's page
- Do not knowingly possess, process, develop, print, publish, transport, distribute, sell, exhibit, or advertise computer-generated child pornography or any other visual or print medium depicting a child engaged in actual or simulated sexual conduct
- Computer-generated child pornography includes an altered image of an actual minor, an adult altered to appear as a minor, or a depiction virtually indistinguishable from an actual minor engaged in prohibited sexual conduct
- It is not a defense that the perceived child is an adult or a law enforcement officer
Deepfake Regulation Act (SB 25, 2025), election deepfake disclosuresince 4 lines
Mont. Code Ann. 13-35-801 to 13-35-804 · Read the law's page
- Do not pay for or sponsor the production, creation, or distribution of an election or electioneering communication you knew or should have known is a deepfake of a candidate or political party, within 60 days of the start of voting
- The prohibition does not apply if the communication carries the statutory disclosure that it was significantly edited by artificial intelligence and falsely appears authentic, in the required font size, screen height, or audio duration for its medium
- Bona fide news coverage carrying its own AI-use disclaimer, satire or parody, and certain broadcaster and distribution-platform conduct are exempted
- An interactive computer service is not liable for content another party provided
Digital Likeness and Voice Rights Act (HB 513, 2025), unauthorized AI depiction liabilitysince 2 lines
2025 Mont. Laws ch. 685 (HB 513); Mont. Code Ann. tit. 30, ch. 14 · Read the law's page
- Do not distribute, transmit, or otherwise make available an algorithm, software, tool, or other technology, service, or device with actual and specific knowledge that its primary purpose is to produce an unauthorized digital voice or visual depiction of a particular, identified individual for commercial use
- Do not intentionally publish, perform, distribute, transmit, or make available a digital voice or visual depiction of an individual for commercial use, knowing it is not authorized by the individual or the holder of the individual's property rights
Privacy in communications, digitally fabricated intimate imagesin force4 lines
Mont. Code Ann. 45-8-213 · Read the law's page
- Do not publish, distribute, or disclose a real or digitally fabricated intimate image or video of an identifiable person without consent, when done to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, or injure the person or to obtain money or other valuable consideration
- Do not possess and threaten to disclose such an image or video to obtain money or other valuable consideration
- A first offense is a misdemeanor; a second or subsequent offense is a felony
- This section does not impose liability on an interactive computer service for content provided by another person