Texas enacted Senate Bill 20, criminalizing the possession or promotion of AI-generated material that appears to depict a child. While aimed at combating digital exploitation, the law has sparked debates over its potential impact on digital art and free expression.
Lost on this as the connection between pornography and art is not clear and where free speech comes into it even less so. Some Victorian art presents lasivious paintings of teenage girls and Gauguin is routinely accused of presenting naked young girls, and of course Eric Gill was a paedophile although not in his work, the subject and cross over is not evident.
Still, Maya by Goya were I believe painted for private viewing, with a pornograhic intent,
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A law now criminalizes AI-generated content that mimics children, ostensibly to prevent digital exploitation. But in this pursuit of protection, does it unintentionally stifle the very essence of creativity and innovation? As AI intertwines with art and expression, are we constraining the forces—freedom, evolution, and progress—that fuel both human and artificial intelligence? Could this be a paradox in our quest for security, one that undermines the very principles of intellectual advancement?
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