Law / United States / 
Indiana
Child Exploitation and Possession of Child Pornography, obscene simulated or computer-generated images
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 produce, disseminate, or possess with intent to disseminate an obscene image of simulated sexual conduct that appears to depict a child under eighteen, whether or not the depicted child actually exists, including an image created by a computer program or artificial intelligence
- Do not knowingly possess or access such an image
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
Private right of actionNo
Criminal exposure note
Child exploitation under subsection (b) is a Level 5 felony (imprisonment one to six years, fine up to $10,000 under Ind. Code § 35-50-2-6(b)), a Level 4 felony on aggravating circumstances listed in subsection (c) (imprisonment two to twelve years, fine up to $10,000 under Ind. Code § 35-50-2-5.5). Possession of child pornography under subsection (d) is a Level 6 felony (imprisonment six months to two and one-half years, fine up to $10,000 under Ind. Code § 35-50-2-7(b)), a Level 5 felony on the same aggravating circumstances listed in subsection (e).
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 35-42-4-4 defines child exploitation and possession of child pornography, including a computer-generated or simulated image, and states the penalties for each; it states no logging or record-keeping duty.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Indiana's child-exploitation statute defines "image" to include a computer-generated image, and separately reaches simulated sexual conduct involving a representation that appears to be a child under eighteen, where the representation is obscene, without requiring that the child depicted actually exist.
Producing, disseminating, or possessing with intent to disseminate such an image is child exploitation, a Level 5 felony (a Level 4 felony on aggravating circumstances such as the depicted conduct including force or a victim under twelve), and knowingly possessing or accessing such an image is possession of child pornography, a Level 6 felony (a Level 5 felony on the same aggravating circumstances).
This reaches an AI-generated depiction of a fictional child in an obscene sexual context on the same terms as any other computer-generated image. Both the computer-generated-image definition and the simulated-conduct language quoted here were added by House Enrolled Act 1363 (P.L.172-2022), effective .
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app generates images with AI, generates video with AI, serves under-18s or publishes adult content.
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