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Arkansas
Act 977 of 2025 (HB 1877), AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material Amendments
Ark. Code Ann. §§ 5-27-302, 5-27-304, 5-27-601 to 5-27-603, 5-27-609
In force since .
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- Enforcement body
- Arkansas prosecuting attorneys, through ordinary criminal prosecution
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
- Setting the rule reaches
- General
What it requires
- Do not advertise, sell, distribute, possess, or view a computer-generated or otherwise AI-produced visual or print medium that an ordinary person would conclude depicts an actual child engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
- If you provide or develop an AI system and conduct adversarial testing in good faith to prevent, detect, or mitigate the risk of that system generating this material, that testing is exempt, but only if it is not for personal, exploitative, or unrelated purposes.
- This offense does not reach an interactive computer service for content supplied by another party.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-08Information Integrity
- GAI-RISK-11Obscene, Degrading, and/or Abusive Content
- MIT mitigations Draft
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-005System Acceptance Testing
- ETSI EN 304 223
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Electronic facilitation of child sexual abuse, which now reaches a computer-generated image indistinguishable from a real child, is a Class B felony.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Act 977 extends Arkansas's child sexual abuse material offenses to computer-generated and AI-produced material and creates a safe harbor for adversarial testing conducted in good faith to prevent, detect, or mitigate the risk of an AI system generating this material. The Act imposes no duty to create, keep, or produce a log or record of the testing or of anything else.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Act 977 amends the Arkansas Protection of Children Against Exploitation Act of 1979 and the state's computer-crimes-against-minors chapter to add "computer generated" (produced, adapted, or modified, in whole or in part, through artificial intelligence) alongside the existing categories of prohibited child sexual abuse material, and adds "indistinguishable," a visual or print medium that an ordinary person viewing it would conclude depicts an actual child, excluding a drawing, cartoon, sculpture, or painting.
Electronic facilitation of child sexual abuse, which now reaches this computer-generated material, is a Class B felony under section 5-27-603; the felony class for the amended distributing, possessing, or viewing offense at section 5-27-602 is not stated in the text of this Act.
The Act carves out an interactive computer service for content supplied by another party, a law-enforcement investigation exemption, and a safe harbor for a provider or developer whose computer-generated material was produced through adversarial testing conducted in good faith to prevent, detect, or mitigate the risk of an AI system generating this material, so long as the testing was not for personal, exploitative, or unrelated purposes. Approved .
When LexLint raises it
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