Study F: Legal challenges in tackling AI-generated CSAM across the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand : who is accountable according to the law?
Gaitis, Konstantinos K.
Study F: Legal challenges in tackling AI-generated CSAM across the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand : who is accountable according to the law? Konstantinos K. Gaitis, Chrystala Fakonti, Zoe Lonard, Mengyao Lu, Jessica Schidlow, James Stevenson, Deborah Fry - Childlight: Global Child Safety Institute, 2025
In: Searchlight 2025 - Who benefits? Shining a light on the business of child sexual exploitation and abuse (pp. 50-59)
This study is among the first to examine the regulatory context of five closely inter-connected countries (UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) in terms of accountability around child sexual abuse material (CSAM) created via generative
artificial intelligence (gen-AI). The findings of our legislative review have helped us identify the key strengths as well as weaknesses of the legislative contexts studied. These countries were selected due to their democratic political systems,
technological advances and progressive legislative systems. We examined 29 pieces of legislation and 25 cases for the UK context; 27 pieces of legislation in Australia and New Zealand, together with 4 emerging cases; as well as 279 statutes, 52 pieces of pending legislation and 65 cases in the US and Canada. (From the introduction).
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CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)
CRIME
HANGARAU MŌHIOHIO
IMAGE-BASED SEXUAL ABUSE
JUSTICE
LEGISLATION
PORNOGRAPHY
PŪNAHA TURE TAIHARA
TECHNOLOGY-FACILITATED ABUSE
TAITŌKAI
TURE O TE KĀWANATANGA
INTERNATIONAL
AUSTRALIA
CANADA
NEW ZEALAND
UNITED KINGDOM
UNITED STATES
Study F: Legal challenges in tackling AI-generated CSAM across the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand : who is accountable according to the law? Konstantinos K. Gaitis, Chrystala Fakonti, Zoe Lonard, Mengyao Lu, Jessica Schidlow, James Stevenson, Deborah Fry - Childlight: Global Child Safety Institute, 2025
In: Searchlight 2025 - Who benefits? Shining a light on the business of child sexual exploitation and abuse (pp. 50-59)
This study is among the first to examine the regulatory context of five closely inter-connected countries (UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) in terms of accountability around child sexual abuse material (CSAM) created via generative
artificial intelligence (gen-AI). The findings of our legislative review have helped us identify the key strengths as well as weaknesses of the legislative contexts studied. These countries were selected due to their democratic political systems,
technological advances and progressive legislative systems. We examined 29 pieces of legislation and 25 cases for the UK context; 27 pieces of legislation in Australia and New Zealand, together with 4 emerging cases; as well as 279 statutes, 52 pieces of pending legislation and 65 cases in the US and Canada. (From the introduction).
Follow to read more from Searchlight 2025. Record #9220
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)
CRIME
HANGARAU MŌHIOHIO
IMAGE-BASED SEXUAL ABUSE
JUSTICE
LEGISLATION
PORNOGRAPHY
PŪNAHA TURE TAIHARA
TECHNOLOGY-FACILITATED ABUSE
TAITŌKAI
TURE O TE KĀWANATANGA
INTERNATIONAL
AUSTRALIA
CANADA
NEW ZEALAND
UNITED KINGDOM
UNITED STATES