Law / United States / 
Rhode Island
Unauthorized dissemination of indecent material, digitally created or altered images
R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 11-64-1, 11-64-3
In force since .
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Place of effect
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
- Setting the rule reaches
- General
What it requires
- Do not disseminate, publish, or sell a sexually explicit visual image of an identifiable adult, including one created or altered by a digital device, without that person's consent, where you know or recklessly disregard that the person will likely suffer harm, or intend to harass, intimidate, threaten, or coerce them.
- A first violation is a misdemeanor; a second or subsequent violation, or a threat to disclose such an image for a benefit, or a demand for payment to remove one from public view, is a felony.
- This chapter does not impose liability on an interactive computer service, information service, or telecommunications service for content provided by another person.
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
Private right of actionNo
Penalty structure
Three tiers: a first violation is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year and a $1,000 fine, or both; a second or subsequent violation is a felony punishable by up to three years and a $3,000 fine, or both; threatening to disclose such an image for a benefit, or demanding payment to remove one from public view, is a separate felony punishable by up to five years and a $5,000 fine, or both.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Currency
- USD
- Fixed cap
- 5,000
What it makes you log
Logging duty
The section punishes disseminating a covered image without the depicted person's consent and states no duty to keep a log or record of a dissemination or of the consent it requires.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 11-64-3(a)(1), as amended by two 2025 public laws effective , reaches a sexually explicit visual image of an identifiable adult "including any image created by a digital device or altered by digitization," language that covers a synthetic or AI-altered intimate image of a real, identifiable person alongside an unaltered photograph or recording.
Liability requires that the image was made or obtained under circumstances a reasonable person would know were meant to stay private (or was made without consent), was disseminated without the depicted person's consent, and was disseminated with knowledge or reckless disregard of likely harm, or with intent to harass, intimidate, threaten, or coerce.
A first violation is a misdemeanor (up to one year and $1,000); a second or subsequent violation is a felony (up to three years and $3,000); threatening to disclose such an image for a benefit, or demanding payment to remove one from public view, is a separate felony (up to five years and $5,000). Newsworthy, law-enforcement, legal-proceeding, and interactive-computer-service exemptions apply.
When LexLint raises it
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