What to Know

The Take It Down Act, signed into law in mid-May, makes it a crime to post sexually explicit images online without the subject's consent -- even if they were generated by AI -- among other provisions.

The measure also criminalizes threats to publish sexually explicit images of both children and adults, whether to intimidate, coerce or extort someone or to cause distress.

Experts working to combat online sex abuse say the new rules are much-needed tools to protect children in particular -- who can never give legal consent for such images to be posted.

The number of reports of online child sexual abuse involving AI made to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children jumped from 4,700 reports in 2023 to 67,000 in 2024 -- a staggering 1,325% increase.

The new law r

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