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Unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image (digitization amendment)

N.Y. Penal Law § 245.15

In force since .

An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.

Criminal exposure
Yes
Criminal exposure note
Class A misdemeanor.
Obligation class
Prohibition
Audit expectation
none
Setting the rule reaches
General

What it requires

  • Do not intentionally disseminate or publish a still or video image, including one created or altered by digitization, that depicts a person's intimate parts or sexual conduct without that person's consent and with intent to cause them emotional, financial or physical harm.

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.

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.

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Section 245.15 makes it a crime to disseminate or publish an intimate image, including one created or altered by digitization, without the depicted person's consent. It creates no duty to create, keep, or produce any log or record of the image, its creation, or its dissemination.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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It is a class A misdemeanor to intentionally disseminate or publish an intimate image of another person without consent and with intent to cause emotional, financial or physical harm, including an image created or altered by digitization; the statute defines digitization to mean altering an image in a realistic manner using images of a person other than the person depicted, or computer-generated images.

The offense applies regardless of the actor's role in creating the original image, so a person who disseminates an AI-generated or AI-altered intimate depiction is exposed on the same terms as one who disseminates an unaltered photograph.

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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