Daniel Lyons on the Supreme Court’s Action on AI Child Abuse Images
ICLE Affiliate Daniel Lyons was quoted in a Washington Post article pertaining to a federal appeals court’s decision that the First Amendment protects an individual’s right to privately possess images of videos of child sexual abuse created using artificial intelligence:
Daniel Lyons, a law professor at Boston College, said there is a decent chance the Supreme Court will take up the case. Last year, it revisited early-internet-era speech and pornography decisions that affect children in the course of upholding Texas’s right to require pornography websites to verify a user’s age before granting access.
Lyons said tightening restrictions on AI-generated child sex abuse material is necessary because the growing number of synthetic images is straining a system originally created to combat explicit imagery of real children, he said.
Read the full piece here.