Criminal offence for using or training AI to create child abuse material
Criminal Code Amendment (Using Technology to Generate Child Abuse Material) Bill 2025
Independent Bill1st House
2nd House
Law
Introduced by: Kate Chaney (IND)
Links to official parliament websites
Effects of this bill
If this bill passes, it means that:
A person commits a crime if they use a carriage service to download, supply, or access technology designed to create child abuse material.
A person commits a crime if they scrape or distribute data to train technology designed to create child abuse abuse material.
Both offences carry a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.
People are not criminally responsible if their conduct is for a public benefit; this includes enforcing laws or conducting approved research.
Law enforcement and intelligence officers are not criminally responsible if their actions are reasonable for their duties.