Law / United States / New Mexico
Sexual Exploitation of Children Act, morphed and computer-generated image provisions
N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-6A-3(F), (G)
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As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not manufacture an obscene visual or print medium, including a computer or electronically generated image, video or similar work, depicting a prohibited sexual act in which a real, identifiable child under eighteen, who was not an actual participant, is depicted as a participant.
- Do not distribute such a medium.
- The medium need not involve any actual child engaging in the depicted act to violate this section, only a real child's identity depicted as if they were; an artificial-intelligence-generated or artificial-intelligence-altered image or video that inserts or morphs a real child's likeness into sexually explicit content falls within this definition.
If you get it wrong
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Criminal exposure note
Manufacturing an obscene visual or print medium in which a real child, who was not an actual participant, is depicted as a participant in a prohibited sexual act is a fourth degree felony under Section 30-6A-3(F); distributing the same is a third degree felony under Section 30-6A-3(G).
What it reaches
Obligation class
Prohibition
What this law does
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The Sexual Exploitation of Children Act defines a visual or print medium to include a computer diskette, videotape, videodisc, or any computer or electronically generated imagery (Section 30-6A-2(B)), so the Act's coverage is not limited to a photograph of a real event.
Section 30-6A-3(F) makes it unlawful to intentionally manufacture an obscene visual or print medium depicting a prohibited sexual act if the person knows or has reason to know that a real child under eighteen, who is not a participant, is depicted as a participant in that act, a fourth degree felony. Section 30-6A-3(G) makes distributing such a medium a third degree felony.
Neither subsection requires that any child actually engaged in the depicted conduct; both reach a medium, including one that is computer or electronically generated, that depicts an identifiable real child as if they were a participant in a prohibited sexual act when they were not, which covers an artificial-intelligence-generated or artificial-intelligence-altered image or video inserting or morphing a real child's likeness into sexually explicit content.
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