Lawmakers hear testimony on role of AI in some child abuse cases
House Bill 82 would update Montana law to account for the use of AI in altering photos of minors and using computer-generated images in “sextortion” cases to blackmail children.
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Sextortion on the rise in Utah
Defined by the FBI as coercing someone to share explicit images of themselves, then using the image to blackmail them, sextortion is on the rise.
FBI reports ‘significant increase’ in sextortion in Mountain West
The FBI Salt Lake City field office, which covers Utah, Montana and Idaho, says it’s been receiving “dozens” of reports of sextortion each month.