{"id":184605,"date":"2026-02-04T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/georgia-might-criminalize-using-ai-to-create-obscene-images-of-people\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:40:09","slug":"georgia-might-criminalize-using-ai-to-create-obscene-images-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/georgia-might-criminalize-using-ai-to-create-obscene-images-of-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia might criminalize using AI to create obscene images of people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecurrentga.org\/2026\/02\/04\/georgia-might-criminalize-using-ai-to-create-obscene-images-of-people\/\">Georgia might criminalize using AI to create obscene images of people<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecurrentga.org\/2026\/02\/04\/georgia-might-criminalize-using-ai-to-create-obscene-images-of-people\/\">https:\/\/thecurrentga.org\/2026\/02\/04\/georgia-might-criminalize-using-ai-to-create-obscene-images-of-people\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-04 18:34:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thecurrentga.org\">thecurrentga.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Georgia state senators are considering a proposal to criminalize the use of AI technology to create non-consensual, obscene images of real people, termed &#8220;virtual peeping.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The proposed legislation, Senate Bill 398, would classify the creation and distribution of such AI-generated images as felonies, punishable by hefty prison sentences and fines.<\/li>\n<li>The bill aims to protect victims whose privacy is violated by these technologies, which have become a modern concern.<\/li>\n<li>Advocates for the bill argue that harsh penalties are necessary, while some critics argue it may be too broad and could penalize minors or others for using AI tools unsuitably.<\/li>\n<li>Concerns were raised by civil rights groups and civil libertarians that the bill&#8217;s definitions might infringe on free speech rights, particularly regarding satire, artistic expression, political commentary, and parody.<\/li>\n<li>The bill did not receive a final vote and is expected to undergo revisions before being presented in its new form.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia might criminalize using AI to create obscene images of people https:\/\/thecurrentga.org\/2026\/02\/04\/georgia-might-criminalize-using-ai-to-create-obscene-images-of-people\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-04&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thecurrentga.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pexels-photo-735911.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184607,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184605\/revisions\/184607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}