09/04/2026
🚨Important message from our Executive Director of ATP Task Force, Katie Yaryan.
The latest ruling about AI generated CSAM is deeply concerning.
Technology has changed dramatically, but our laws have not kept pace.
A federal appeals court has ruled that existing Supreme Court precedent protects the private possession of certain AI-generated child sexual abuse material when no real child can be shown to have been involved in its creation. Even the judges acknowledged the troubling reality: today’s AI-generated images can be virtually indistinguishable from images depicting the actual sexual abuse of children.
This is not a harmless loophole. AI-generated child sexual abuse material creates new challenges for investigators, makes identifying real victims more difficult, and risks normalizing imagery that should never be acceptable in any form.
Protecting children requires our laws to evolve as quickly as the technology being used to exploit them.
We cannot afford to look the other way.
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