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AR HB1877

Bill

Status

Passed

4/22/2025

Primary Sponsor

Stephen Meeks

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Origin

House of Representatives

95th General Assembly (2025 Regular)

AI Summary

  • Expands Arkansas child sexual exploitation laws to criminalize AI-generated images that are indistinguishable from real children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, produced through artificial intelligence

  • Defines "indistinguishable" as imagery an ordinary person would conclude depicts an actual child, explicitly excluding drawings, cartoons, sculptures, and paintings

  • Creates exemptions for law enforcement investigations and for interactive computer services conducting good-faith "adversarial testing" (red teaming) to improve AI safety systems

  • Prohibits adversarial testing exemptions from applying to individuals testing AI for personal, exploitative, or non-legitimate safety purposes

  • Renames offense from "possession or use of child sexual abuse material" to "electronic facilitation of child sexual abuse" while maintaining Class B felony classification

Legislative Description

Concerning Criminal Offenses Related To Possession Of Sexually Explicit Material That Depicts A Child; And To Include A Computer Generated Image That Is Indistinguishable From The Image Of A Child.

Last Action

Notification that HB1877 is now Act 977

4/22/2025

Committee Referrals

Judiciary4/10/2025
Judiciary4/8/2025
Judiciary3/20/2025

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