MP Pushes to Criminalise Tools for AI-Generated Child Abuse Content

Kate Chaney’s bill seeks to criminalise the use, possession, and sharing of AI tools built to produce or train on child sexual abuse material.

A photo taken on Nov. 23, 2023, shows the logo of the ChatGPT application developed by U.S. artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI on a smartphone screen (L) and the letters AI on a laptop screen in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images

Independent MP Kate Chaney has introduced a new bill to amend Australia’s Criminal Code Act 1995 and criminalise the use of artificial intelligence tools designed to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

The Criminal Code Amendment (Using Technology to Generate Child Abuse Material) Bill 2025 seeks to make it an offence to download, possess, or distribute AI technology specifically developed to produce CSAM or to scrape or collect data for training such tools.