Volume 7 · Issue 1
Childless, Not Victimless: Moral and Legal Considerations of AI-Generated Child Pornography
Parker Fulton Felterman
Abstract
Pornography has long been considered protected under the First Amendment’s right to free speech. Child pornography, meanwhile, maintains no such protections because the harm of child abuse involved outweighs any free speech rights. Child pornography created by artificial intelligence, however, is not necessarily created through child abuse, and so under current precedent is likely protected by the First Amendment. This note serves to explore the moral implications of AI-generated child pornography, and to consider potential legal solutions in confronting a currently lawful evil.