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Law / United States / Rhode Island

Child pornography prohibited, computer-generated and digitally altered depictions

R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-9-1.3

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 produce, transport, reproduce, or possess a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct, including a computer-generated or digitally altered image of a minor; this statute's definition already reaches an AI-generated or AI-altered depiction without needing separate AI-specific language.
  • An identifiable-minor depiction is covered even where it was created or modified using an image of the minor taken at another time, and proof of the minor's actual identity is not required.

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.

If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureYes

Private right of actionNo

Penalty structure

Two tiers: production, transport, or reproduction (subdivisions (a)(1) through (a)(3)) is punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000 and imprisonment of not more than fifteen years, or both; mere possession (subdivision (a)(4)) is punishable by not more than $5,000 and five years, or both.

Rule
Fixed only
As of
Currency
USD
Fixed cap
5,000

What it makes you log

Logging duty

The section's covered-image definition is written in technology-neutral terms and states no duty to keep a log or record of any kind.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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Section 11-9-1.3 defines "child pornography" to include a visual depiction that is a digital image, computer image, or computer-generated image of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct, or one that has been created, adapted, or modified to display an identifiable minor engaging in such conduct, alongside the ordinary case of an actual minor's image.

This wording replaced the section's original 2001 text: P.L. 2004, ch. 586 enacted it on , and P.L. 2004, ch. 612 enacted the identical wording again on . The definition already reaches an AI-generated or AI-altered depiction and carries no separate reference to artificial intelligence.

Production, transport, or reproduction of covered material is punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000 and imprisonment of not more than fifteen years, or both; mere possession is punishable by not more than $5,000 and five years, or both.

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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