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AI-generated and AI-altered images in child exploitation and non-consensual dissemination offenses
K.S.A. 21-5510, 21-5611, 21-6101 (as amended by 2025 Kan. Sess. Laws ch. 120, HB 2183)
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In force 77 days, effective 1 July 2026.
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not produce, possess, or distribute an artificially generated visual depiction, including one indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image, or generated without any actual child's involvement, that depicts a child under 18 engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
- Do not create, alter, modify, or knowingly transmit an item using artificial intelligence or any digital means to appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable child in a sexually explicit visual depiction.
- Do not disseminate an image created, altered, or modified by artificial intelligence or any digital means to appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable adult who is nude or engaged in sexual activity, without that person's consent, with intent to harass, threaten, or intimidate them, and under circumstances where the person had a reasonable expectation of privacy.
If you get it wrong
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Criminal exposure note
Possessing an artificially generated visual depiction of a child under K.S.A. 21-5510(a)(2)(B) is a severity level 5 person felony. Disseminating a non-consensual or AI-altered intimate image of an identifiable adult under K.S.A. 21-6101(a)(8) is a severity level 8 person felony, rising to a severity level 5 person felony on a second or subsequent conviction within the previous five years.
What this law does
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K.S.A. 21-5510(a)(2)(B) separately criminalizes possessing an artificially generated visual depiction, defined as an obscene image produced through computer software, digital manipulation, or other means that appears to depict a child under 18 engaging in sexually explicit conduct, including one indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image, or generated without any actual child's involvement, with intent to arouse or gratify sexual desire; this is a severity level 5 person felony.
K.S.A. 21-5611's definition of visual depiction for the unlawful-transmission-of-a-child's-image offense was extended to include any item that has been created, in whole or in part, altered or modified by artificial intelligence or any digital means to appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable child, regardless of whether such identifiable child was involved in the creation of the original image.
K.S.A. 21-6101(a)(8), the breach-of-privacy offense for non-consensual dissemination of an intimate image, was extended on the same terms to reach any videotape, photograph, film or image that has been created, in whole or in part, altered or modified by artificial intelligence or any digital means to appear to depict or purport to depict such identifiable person, regardless of whether such identifiable person was involved in the creation of the original image. This amendment, 2025 Kan. Sess. Laws ch. 120 (HB 2183), became effective July 1, 2026.
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Read the law
official Kansas Statutes Annotated text, Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes