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AI-generated and indistinguishable depictions included in child-exploitation definitions (HB 2678)

A.R.S. §§ 13-3551, 13-705; 2025 Ariz. Sess. Laws ch. 174 (HB 2678, 57th Leg., 1st Reg. Sess.)

In force since .

An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.

Obligation class
Prohibition
Audit expectation
none
Setting the rule reaches
General

What it requires

  • Do not knowingly produce, direct, manufacture, or possess for commercial gain a computer-generated, artificial-intelligence-generated, or otherwise digitally altered visual depiction that is indistinguishable from an actual minor engaged in exploitive exhibition or other sexual conduct; Arizona's definitions of 'minor' and 'visual depiction' treat such a depiction the same as an image of a real child.
  • Do not knowingly distribute, transport, exhibit, receive, sell, purchase, electronically transmit, or exchange such a depiction.
  • If the depicted minor appears to be under fifteen years of age, the offense is also a 'dangerous crime against children' under A.R.S. § 13-705, which carries its own, more severe sentencing range.

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
MIT mitigations Draft
  • 1.5Safety Decision Frameworks
  • 3.3Access Management
FINOS AIGF
ETSI EN 304 223
  • 5.1.2-1Business need and security risks written down and assessed before deciding to build an AI system.
  • 5.1.4-5End-users told which uses of the system are prohibited.

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If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureYes

Criminal exposure note

Commercial sexual exploitation of a minor (A.R.S. § 13-3552) and sexual exploitation of a minor (A.R.S. § 13-3553) are each a class 2 felony; where the depicted minor, including an indistinguishable computer-generated depiction, is under fifteen years of age, A.R.S. § 13-705 reclassifies the offense as a dangerous crime against children in the first degree.

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Sections 13-3551, 13-3552, 13-3553 and 13-705 define and criminalize commercial sexual exploitation and sexual exploitation of a minor, extending 'minor' to a visual depiction indistinguishable from an actual minor however it was produced; they create no duty to log, record, or document an AI system's role in producing or detecting such a depiction.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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Arizona's chapter on sexual exploitation of children defines 'visual depiction' to include an image created or modified by computer software, artificial intelligence, or other digital editing tools. It defines 'minor' to include a visual depiction that is 'indistinguishable' from an actual minor. 'Indistinguishable' means a visual depiction such that a person viewing it would reasonably conclude it is of an actual minor.

Commercial sexual exploitation of a minor under A.R.S. § 13-3552 is a class 2 felony. Sexual exploitation of a minor under A.R.S. § 13-3553 is also a class 2 felony. Where the depicted minor, including an indistinguishable AI-generated depiction, is under fifteen years of age, A.R.S. § 13-705 reclassifies the offense as a dangerous crime against children in the first degree.

A first offense of commercial sexual exploitation of a minor under that reclassification carries a sentencing range of thirteen to twenty-seven years. A first offense of sexual exploitation of a minor under that reclassification carries a sentencing range of ten to twenty-four years. This measure was enacted as House Bill 2678 and approved by the Governor on , as 2025 Arizona Session Laws chapter 174, which carries no effective-date section or emergency clause of its own.

The Arizona Legislature's own General Effective Dates page states the 2025 First Regular Session's general effective date as .

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