A bill requiring jail time for those who use artificial intelligence to create fake, pornographic images of minors has cleared a Louisiana House committee and is now headed to the full House for a vote.
The bill was authored by State Rep. Bryan Fontenot from Thibodaux and grew out of an incident involving a 13-year-old student.
The girl’s image was posted by another middle school student on a nude body and shown around a school campus.
The child who made the image was charged with several juvenile misdemeanors.
The proposed bill states that crimes involving the dissemination of images like this would be felonies, not misdemeanors, and punishable by five years in jail.
The girl’s father attended the hearing today and lobbied lawmakers to pass the bill.
If the bill clears the full House and Senate and becomes law, it will be called the Ivy Daniels Act, named after the victim, whose father agreed to the law being named after her.
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