Rep. Good Wants Ban on Using AI to Generate Child Sexual Abuse Materials

Advanced computer technologies are tools for countless good things, but they are also being used to generate pornography involving children.

U.S. Rep.-elect Bob Good (R-Va.) delivers remarks in the House Chamber during the third day of elections for Speaker of the House at the Capitol Building in Washington on Jan. 5, 2023. Win McNamee/Getty Images

Department of Justice (DOJ) officials have yet to file a single case against any individual for using Artificial Intelligence (AI) computer programs to generate Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM) despite multiple federal court decisions affirming such prosecutions under anti-pornography and obscenity statutes, according to a group of 30 House Republicans led by Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.).

“This year, there have been numerous reports of widespread AI use for generating CSAM. A Washington Post article cited an internal survey by one dark-web forum which showed that 80 percent of their 3,000 users reported utilizing AI to generate CSAM,” Mr. Good told Attorney General Merrick Garland in a Sept. 14 letter obtained by The Epoch Times.