Law / United States / 
Pennsylvania
Act 125 of 2024, artificially generated child sexual abuse material
In force since .
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not sell, distribute, disseminate, display, or possess for such a purpose, any artificially generated child sexual abuse material.
- Do not intentionally view or knowingly possess or control artificially generated child sexual abuse material.
- An artificial intelligence developer, or its authorized employee or contractor, who reports such material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as soon as reasonably possible after obtaining actual knowledge of it is excepted from this offense.
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
A first offense of dissemination (subsection (c)) or of viewing or possession (subsection (d)) is a felony of the third degree; a second or subsequent offense under either subsection is a felony of the second degree. A first offense is graded one degree higher, as a felony of the second degree, when it involves indecent contact with the child as defined in section 3101, or when the child depicted is under 10 years of age or prepubescent.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 6312 defines and grades the offense of artificially generated child sexual abuse material; it creates no duty of its own to keep any log or record. Its exception for a developer who reports the material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children rests on that developer's compliance with the separate federal reporting duties at 18 U.S.C. sections 2258A and 2258B, which this section does not itself impose.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Any person who knowingly sells, distributes, disseminates, displays, or possesses for such a purpose, any artificially generated child sexual abuse material commits an offense, as does any person who intentionally views or knowingly possesses or controls it.
Artificially generated child sexual abuse material is defined as material that appears to authentically depict a child under 18 engaging in a prohibited sexual act that did not occur in reality, whose production was substantially dependent on technical means including artificial intelligence.
An artificial intelligence developer, or its authorized employee or contractor, who reports such material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as soon as reasonably possible upon obtaining actual knowledge of it, in compliance with 18 U.S.C. §§ 2258A and 2258B, is excepted from the offense. Act 125 of 2024 added this material category to a statute that previously reached only genuine child sexual abuse material, effective 60 days after its signature.
When LexLint raises it
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