>>720620516
>semi intelligent analysis
I can't promise that, but I can give my understanding of it:
Senate Bill 20 was passed for Texas law to add clarification on obscene, illegal material:
>regardless of whether the depiction is an image of an actual child, a cartoon or animation, or an image created using an artificial intelligence application or other computer software.
The problem stems from sickos using AI to create illegal material and being like 'ackually its AI that did it' or 'its not real so its okay :^)' and skirting the law that way. This really only SHOULD apply to situations where AI was used to make said stuff so they can slap them down with the law this time- no holding back.
HOWEVER, the wording and phrasing of this law was too vague and unintentionally (at least to its stated goal) could be used to pull in anime, manga, video games, etc. too because of the wording. The penalty for breaking said law is on equal ground to the actual sickos, so situations like this will likely keep happening.
Ultimately, its a good intention law that allows for serious unintentional consequences to occur. Most likely what happened was the people involved with writing and approving the law either knew of the unitentional conseuqnces and approved it anyways because the net good is much higher than the net bad, OR they didn't realize what they just allowed for. Most likely the former because they can't afford to lose against the sickos going 'ackually...' with AI and stuff, so they needed to cover as much ground as they could.
In an ideal world, this won't impact anything except stop more sickos. But this could also be used as a huge overreach and be misunderstood because video games, anime, manga, etc. are all still relatively new mediums to being accepted in society as a whole. It is a wait and see sort of situation.
Hopefully it is used as intended and really helps protect people, instead of being used to chase after situations where this isn't relevant at all.