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Appeals court delivers unsettling ruling — and says Supreme Court left it no choice
A federal appeals court says Supreme Court precedent forced it to protect possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse material, raising urgent questions.
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Appeals court delivers unsettling ruling — and says Supreme Court left it no choice
The Seventh Circuit affirmed dismissal of a possession charge against a Wisconsin man with hundreds of AI-generated images
By Elaine Mallon Fox News
A federal appeals court says decades-old Supreme Court precedent forced it to protect the in-home possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse material, as judges warned that rapidly advancing technology has complicated legal lines drawn nearly 25 years ago.
The ruling exposes a widening gap between Supreme Court precedent and rapidly advancing artificial intelligence. The Seventh Circuit said it was bound by a 2002 Supreme Court decision that rejected restrictions on sexually explicit depictions of fictional children when no actual child was involved in their creation. But two judges warned that modern AI can now generate images virtually indistinguishable from material depicting the abuse of real children.
"Indeed, in Free Speech Coalition, the Supreme Court addressed the scope of First Amendment protections for virtual CSAM, but that was nearly twenty-five years ago, and the image-generation technology available today was likely unimaginable back then," Judge John Lee wrote. "Given the relentless advancement in artificial intelligence models, we have some concerns about the lines these cases draw, but we are not free to redraw them ourselves."
