Denmark's Top Court Upholds 18-Month Sentence for AI-Generated Child Abuse Images

Denmark's Supreme Court on October 15 upheld an 18-month prison sentence for a 31-year-old man convicted of possessing and distributing tens of thousands of AI-generated child sexual abuse material, ruling that synthetic imagery is legally equivalent to photographic abuse content. The court determined that artificially generated sexual images of minors fall under Denmark's criminal code regardless of whether the depicted children are fictional, rejecting the defendant's argument that artificial content should be treated with leniency.