Arkansas AI-Generated Child Exploitation (HB 1877)
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Penalty
Criminal felony penalties per Arkansas criminal code.
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Overview
Criminal prohibition on creating, possessing, or distributing AI-generated imagery indistinguishable from real minors in sexual situations.
This is an AI-specific state law.
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Who this applies to
This regulation applies to the following roles:
- Developers of covered AI systems
- Deployers and users of covered AI systems
- Organizations operating in Arkansas
This regulation applies to both companies that build AI products and companies that use AI tools from other vendors.
See enrolled statute text at the official source.
AI categories covered
- Consumer-facing AI
- General purpose AI
Specific AI use cases:
- Content generation
- synthetic media manipulation
- voice likeness synthesis
- political synthetic media
What this requires you to do
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What this requires you to do
Prohibited practices
Avoid conduct the statute bans, including harmful manipulation and intentional discrimination.
Regulation summaries are simplified for readability and may not capture every nuance of the underlying statute. Verify important details against primary sources linked on this page.
Enforcement and penalties
Criminal felony penalties per Arkansas criminal code.
Penalty amounts are based on statutory text and may be subject to adjustment, judicial interpretation, or enforcement discretion.
Related regulations
- In EffectAI-Specific
Arkansas Generative AI Content Ownership Act (HB 1876, Act 927)
First-of-its-kind AI content ownership law. Establishes default rules: prompt/data providers own resulting content if input is legally obtained and ownership not transferred by contract. Employer owns content when employee uses AI within scope of employment under employer's direction. Ownership does not extend to content violating pre-existing IP rights. Federal copyright preemption risk: US Copyright Office holds AI-generated works without meaningful human authorship are not copyrightable. Contractual arrangements can override the default ownership rules.
Effective
- In EffectAI-Specific
Arkansas Nonconsensual Synthetic Intimate Content (HB 1529)
Criminal penalties for distributing synthetic intimate content without consent, including AI-generated deepfakes.
Effective
Arkansas AI regulation guide lists every tracked rule for this jurisdiction with timelines and obligation tallies.
Regulation summaries are simplified for readability and may not capture every nuance of the underlying statute. Verify important details against primary sources linked on this page.