Producing, receiving, and distributing artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse material are not activities protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution

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United States federal courts of appeals have consistently upheld the constitutionality of federal child sexual abuse material statutes applied to digitally morphed imagery depicting identifiable, real children

In United States v. Anderegg, the district court declined to extend Stanley v. Georgia First Amendment protections to charges of producing or distributing obscene imagery depicting imaginary children

Following Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, the United States Congress passed the federal child obscenity statute criminalizing obscene, sexually explicit depictions of real or imaginary children

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In Briana Pfefferkorn and Cindy Diniok's study of 71 federal artificial intelligence child sexual abuse material prosecutions, 8 defendants raised First Amendment constitutional defenses

Generating artificial intelligence child sexual abuse material independently can result in federal charges for production

Law enforcement agencies face operational difficulties determining whether an artificial intelligence-altered image depicts a child requiring rescue or an altered image from an existing historical abuse series

In Briana Pfefferkorn and Cindy Diniok's study of 71 federal prosecutions explicitly involving AI CSAM, 9 cases involved exclusively fully synthetic imagery depicting non-existent children