Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo signed two bills this month, expanding the state’s definition of porn to include explicit content generated by artificial intelligence.
SB 263 was introduced to the state legislature in March by Senator Nicole Canisaro and signed by Lombardo on June 6th to update the state’s definition of “child pornography” to include computer-generated sexually explicit images of minors. The law will come into effect in October.
Nevada has joined dozens of states, from California to Connecticut, and has passed new and old, reformed laws to address child sexual abuse material generated by AI.
“Senate Bill 263 will modernize Nevada’s existing child pornography laws, keeping Nevada children safe and giving law enforcement the tools they need to prosecute and stop the spread of AI-generated pornography.”
Governor Lombardo approved SB 213 on June 5, expanding Nevada’s law regarding the illegal spread of intimate images called “venge porn.” This extension adds the use of AI to create and distribute nonconsensual sexual images, causing harassment and harm to someone.
Such expansion is a growth trend. Congress passed The Take It Down Act last April. This criminalizes the unconsensual sharing of intimate images, and requests a platform to notify individuals within 48 hours and delete content. Federal law is new, but almost every state and Washington, D.C. have already enacted laws criminalizing unconsensual pornography, according to the Cyber-Civil Rights Initiative.
