Criminal Code, making or distributing AI-made pornographic or sexual material that uses a person's image or voice without consent
Criminal Code, Article 242-1, as added by Law No. 387-VIIQD of
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition, Consent
- Audit expectation
- none
- Setting the rule reaches
- General
As of .
What it requires
- Do not make pornographic or sexual photo, video or audio material that uses a person's image or voice and is made with artificial intelligence technologies or special software without that person's consent.
- Do not distribute such material in the media or, where it is shown publicly, on internet information resources or in information-telecommunication networks without that person's consent.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 242-1 makes it an offence to make or distribute AI-made pornographic or sexual material that uses a person's image or voice without consent. It names no log, record, event recording or audit trail, and requires no one to show or produce on demand anything only a record could show.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 242-1 of the Criminal Code makes it an offence to make, without the person's consent, pornographic or sexual photo, video or audio material that uses that person's image or voice and is made with artificial intelligence technologies or special software, or to distribute such material in the media or, where it is shown publicly, on internet information resources or in information-telecommunication networks. The offence is punishable by three to seven years' imprisonment.
Article 98 of the Constitution provides that a law takes effect on the day it is published unless the law itself states another rule.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app generates audio with AI, generates images with AI, generates video with AI or publishes adult content.