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Missouri
Child sexual abuse material offenses, computer-generated and AI-indistinguishable images included
Mo. Rev. Stat. Secs. 573.010, 573.023 to 573.037
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 create, possess with intent to promote, or promote a computer-generated or AI-generated image that is, or is indistinguishable from, an actual minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; Missouri's child sexual abuse material definition covers such synthetic images the same as real photographs.
- Knowingly promoting such material to a minor is a more serious offense than promoting it to an adult.
- This statute does not require you to monitor users or their communications if you operate an electronic communication or remote computing service.
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
Promoting child sexual abuse material in the first degree, which includes an AI-generated or computer-generated image indistinguishable from an actual minor, is a class B felony, or a class A felony where knowingly promoted to a minor, with a mandatory three-year period of parole and probation ineligibility.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 573.025 states that nothing in it requires a provider of electronic communication or remote computing services to monitor a user, subscriber, or customer, or the content of their communications; none of the cited sections imposes a duty to keep logs or records of a prohibited image or of a search for one.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Missouri's definition of child sexual abuse material, amended in 2026, includes a digital image, computer image, or computer-generated image that is, or is indistinguishable from, that of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct, where an ordinary person viewing it would conclude it depicts an actual minor, regardless of whether the minor was actually engaged in that conduct.
Promoting such material in the first degree, meaning possessing it with intent to promote or promoting it, where the depicted or apparent child is under fourteen, is a class B felony, rising to a class A felony if knowingly promoted to a minor, with three years of parole and probation ineligibility.
Promoting the same material where the depicted or apparent child is under eighteen is the lesser offense of promoting in the second degree, a class D felony rising to a class B felony if knowingly promoted to a minor. Possessing such material is a class D felony for a single still image, rising to a class B felony for more than twenty images, for one video, or on a repeat offense, with separate punishment for each item possessed.
The statute does not require a provider of electronic communication or remote computing services to monitor users or their communications.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app generates images with AI, generates video with AI or publishes adult content.
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