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Louisiana
Act 892 (SB 42), AI-generated child sexual abuse materials
La. R.S. 14:81.1(B)(3), (9), as amended by 2026 La. Acts, Act No. 892 (SB 42)
In force since .
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
- Setting the rule reaches
- General
As of .
What it requires
- Do not produce, promote, advertise, distribute, or possess child sexual abuse materials, or possess them with intent to distribute.
- Child sexual abuse materials include a photograph, film, video, picture, digital image, computer image, or computer-generated image of any sexual performance involving a child under seventeen, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means.
- An image or other visual representation created or generated by electronic or digital means, including artificial intelligence, counts as a child under seventeen when, to a reasonable person, it is a virtually indistinguishable depiction of a child under seventeen.
- Producing child sexual abuse materials includes causing them to be digitally generated, including by artificial intelligence.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Intentional possession, and distribution or possession with intent to distribute, each carry a fine of up to $50,000 and imprisonment at hard labor for five to twenty years without parole, probation, or suspension; promotion, advertisement, or production carries a fine of up to $50,000 and ten to twenty years (La. R.S. 14:81.1(E)).
Penalty structure
A first conviction for possession, distribution, promotion, advertisement, or production carries a fine of not more than $50,000, and the fine ceiling is $75,000 on a second or subsequent conviction, each with imprisonment at hard labor.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Currency
- USD
- Fixed cap
- 75,000
What it makes you log
Logging duty
The offense and its definitions state no duty for anyone to create, keep, or produce a log or record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Senate Bill 42 of the 2026 Regular Session, signed as Act No. 892, amends the definitions in Revised Statutes 14:81.1, the child sexual abuse materials offense, to prohibit the use of artificial intelligence to create child sexual abuse materials. The offense makes it unlawful for a person to produce, promote, advertise, distribute, possess, or possess with the intent to distribute child sexual abuse materials.
Child sexual abuse materials include any photograph, film, video, picture, digital image or picture, computer image or picture, or computer-generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means, of any sexual performance involving a child under the age of seventeen.
For that definition, a child includes both a natural person under the age of seventeen years and an image or other visual representation of a child under the age of seventeen years that is created or generated by electronic or digital means, including artificial intelligence, and that, to a reasonable person, is a virtually indistinguishable depiction of a child under the age of seventeen years.
To produce child sexual abuse materials means to photograph, videotape, film, cause to be digitally generated, including by artificial intelligence, or otherwise reproduce them, or to solicit, promote, or coerce any child for the purpose of child sexual abuse materials.
Whoever intentionally possesses child sexual abuse materials shall be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars and imprisoned at hard labor for not less than five years or more than twenty years, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.
Whoever distributes or possesses with the intent to distribute child sexual abuse materials shall be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars and imprisoned at hard labor for not less than five years or more than twenty years, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.
Whoever engages in the promotion, advertisement, or production of child sexual abuse materials shall be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars and imprisoned at hard labor for not less than ten years nor more than twenty years, without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence. The Governor signed Senate Bill 42 on , and it became Act No. 892. The act's effective date is .
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app generates images with AI, generates video with AI or publishes adult content.