HB 289 — Child Sexual Abuse Material Amendments
HB 289 amends Utah law to address the creation, distribution, and possession of child sexual abuse material. The bill includes provisions related to the use of artificial intelligence in detecting and preventing the spread of such material. It aims to strengthen legal measures to protect minors from exploitation and combat the proliferation of CSAM online.
Linked Incidents
12Incidents this policy has been directly linked to
Child abuse investigators receive low-quality or irrelevant tips from Meta's AI reporting system
Teenagers allege Grok chatbot generated sexual images of them as minors
Young user exposed to child sex images via Stable Diffusion AI model
New Zealand authorities seize 3 million child sex abuse and terrorism materials online to prevent further distribution
12-year-old Cobb County child exploited on Snapchat by seven men over one year
38-year-old man sexually grooms 13- and 9-year-old girls via Snapchat leading to four-year prison sentence
Johnson City man receives child sex abuse materials via Discord platform in Tennessee
Teenage girl in Gwent sexually groomed online leading to suicidal ideation and seven-year prison sentence for offender
Student uses AI to generate and distribute explicit images of minor classmates via Discord
31-year-old man solicits explicit content from underage girls via Roblox leading to seven felony charges
Related Incidents
Same harm domain, actors and location may differ
14-year-old girl groomed via social media by Sydney private school teacher leading to child abuse material charges
12-year-old girl sexually groomed via TikTok leading to out-of-state assault in Binghamton, New York
9-year-old girl dies after attempting blackout challenge on YouTube
13-year-old Louisiana girl exposed to AI-generated nude deepfake images leading to expulsion and federal lawsuit against school district
12-year-old girl groomed and coerced into self-harm and producing child sexual abuse materials via social media in New Jersey
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