When "Sweetie" is not so Sweet: Artificial Intelligence and its Implications for Child Pornography.

The production of child pornography using Artificial Intelligence is poised to potentially evade current laws protecting child abuse. Artificial Intelligence "DeepFakes" can be used to create indistinguishable videos and images of child abuse, without actual child abuse ever occurring. This Note proposes two solutions for curbing this inevitable dilemma. First, Artificial Intelligence should fall under the "computer‐generated" terminology found in the 18 U.S.C. § 2256(8) definition of child pornography. Second, if Artificial Intelligence cannot be considered to fall under that definition, then 18 U.S.C. § 2256(8) should be amended to include "Artificial Intelligence‐generation." Key Points for the Family Court Community: The United States is one of the largest producers and consumers of child abuse content in the world.In 2018, technology companies reported over 45 million images and videos of child abuse.The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has to review 25 million images of child abuse annually, amounting to 480,769 images a week.Currently, there are no laws regulating Artificial Intelligence in the United States.DeepFake technology has progressed to allow even the most rudimentary computer user to create a pornographic DeepFake in just a few hours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]