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AI-generated and AI-altered images in child exploitation and non-consensual dissemination offenses

K.S.A. 21-5510, 21-5611, 21-6101 (as amended by 2025 Kan. Sess. Laws ch. 120, HB 2183)

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, possess, or distribute an artificially generated visual depiction, including one indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image, or generated without any actual child's involvement, that depicts a child under 18 engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
  • Do not create, alter, modify, or knowingly transmit an item using artificial intelligence or any digital means to appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable child in a sexually explicit visual depiction.
  • Do not disseminate an image created, altered, or modified by artificial intelligence or any digital means to appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable adult who is nude or engaged in sexual activity, without that person's consent, with intent to harass, threaten, or intimidate them, and under circumstances where the person had a reasonable expectation of privacy.

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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

Possessing an artificially generated visual depiction of a child under K.S.A. 21-5510(a)(2)(B) is a severity level 5 person felony. Disseminating a non-consensual or AI-altered intimate image of an identifiable adult under K.S.A. 21-6101(a)(8) is a severity level 8 person felony, rising to a severity level 5 person felony on a second or subsequent conviction within the previous five years.

What it makes you log

Logging duty

K.S.A. 21-5510(a)(2)(B), 21-5611, and 21-6101(a)(8) criminalize possessing an artificially generated visual depiction of a child, and creating, altering, transmitting, or disseminating an image using artificial intelligence or digital means to depict an identifiable child or adult without consent. None of the three provisions states a duty for anyone to create, keep, or produce a record; they are prohibitions enforced through ordinary criminal investigation and prosecution.

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What this law does

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Research summary

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K.S.A. 21-5510(a)(2)(B) separately criminalizes possessing an artificially generated visual depiction, defined as an obscene image produced through computer software, digital manipulation, or other means that appears to depict a child under 18 engaging in sexually explicit conduct, including one indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image, or generated without any actual child's involvement, with intent to arouse or gratify sexual desire; this is a severity level 5 person felony.

K.S.A. 21-5611's definition of visual depiction for the unlawful-transmission-of-a-child's-image offense was extended to include any item that has been created, in whole or in part, altered or modified by artificial intelligence or any digital means to appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable child, regardless of whether such identifiable child was involved in the creation of the original image.

K.S.A. 21-6101(a)(8), the breach-of-privacy offense for non-consensual dissemination of an intimate image, was extended on the same terms to reach any videotape, photograph, film or image that has been created, in whole or in part, altered or modified by artificial intelligence or any digital means to appear to depict or purport to depict such identifiable person, regardless of whether such identifiable person was involved in the creation of the original image. This amendment, 2025 Kan. Sess. Laws ch. 120 (HB 2183), became effective .

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