A measure to criminalize AI-generated child porn was moved forward by an Illinois state legislative committee.
Attorney General Kwame Raoul speaks at City Club of Chicago in River North on Sept. 13, 2023. SPRINGFIELD — Illinois legislators have been looking at how state law needs to adapt to address the advent of artificial intelligence and its influence on society, and on Tuesday, the discussion focused on legislation related to Internet sex crimes against children.
During the hearing, Gong-Gershowitz said this AI content is “quickly” reaching a point of being indiscernible from authentic child pornography images. “How is the system going to deal with this when we cannot prove that it is a real child because it’s not?” Haslett asked. “We’re trying to be proactive about this so that when AI does become indistinguishable from a real product, that it does not flood the market and present this material being everywhere and then we can’t stop it.”
During Tuesday’s debate, the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, as well as a couple of progressive Democrats on the panel, expressed concerns that the penalties for computer-generated depictions of pornographic images involving children should not be put on the same level as images involving an identifiable human victim.
“The severity of the punishment that we have in statute is appropriate for situations where there’s sexual harm done to a child, right? That’s why these sentences are very serious in our statute,” Guzzardi said. “And I think when a computer creates a picture of something very vulgar and upsetting, I don’t think that that causes the same degree of harm, societally or individually, as a photograph of a child being sexually abused.
Gong-Gershowitz maintained that even if Cassidy is correct, AI-generated child pornography could cause harm that includes normalizing the sexual abuse of children.
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