Criminalizes disclosing or threatening to disclose explicit synthetic media without consent if it causes distress, is intended to harass, or is used for blackmail. Defines terms, provides penalties, and exemptions. Excludes certain services from liability unless they aid disclosure of explicit synthetic material.
Analysis summaries, actor details, and coverage mappings were LLM-classified and may contain errors.
This is a binding state statute enacted by the Idaho Legislature with criminal penalties, enforcement mechanisms, and mandatory legal obligations.
The document has good coverage of approximately 5-6 subdomains, with strong focus on malicious actors (4.1, 4.3), privacy compromise (2.1), toxic content exposure (1.2), and misinformation (3.1). Coverage is concentrated in malicious use, privacy violations, and content-related harms from synthetic media.
This legislation does not target specific economic sectors but rather regulates individual conduct involving explicit synthetic media across all sectors. The exemptions for interactive computer services, information services, and telecommunication services indicate some governance of the Information sector, though primarily to exclude liability rather than impose obligations.
The document does not explicitly address specific AI lifecycle stages but focuses on the deployment and use of AI-generated synthetic media. It primarily regulates the disclosure and possession of explicit synthetic media created using AI, which relates most closely to the Deploy and Operate stages.
The document explicitly mentions AI as a technical means for creating synthetic media. It does not distinguish between different types of AI (frontier, general purpose, task-specific, etc.) or mention compute thresholds, foundation models, or open-weight models. The focus is on generative AI capabilities that create realistic synthetic media.
Idaho State Legislature
The document is enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho, as stated in the enactment clause.
As a criminal statute, enforcement is conducted by Idaho's criminal justice system including prosecutors, law enforcement, and courts who have authority to investigate, prosecute, and adjudicate violations.
Monitoring is implicit through the criminal justice system's ongoing enforcement activities, including law enforcement investigations and prosecutorial oversight of violations.
The law targets any person who knowingly discloses explicit synthetic media, which could include AI developers who create such content, users who deploy or share it, and the identifiable individuals portrayed who are affected stakeholders. The law also exempts certain service providers unless they intentionally aid disclosure.
6 subdomains (4 Good, 2 Minimal)