wire / 2026-10-14-20b4
Danish Supreme Court Upholds Conviction Over 36,000 AI-Generated Child Abuse Images
Denmark's highest court ruled that generated abuse images are illegal like any other. It took 36,000 of them to get the question answered.
The facts
Denmark's Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a 31-year-old man for creating and distributing over 36,000 AI-generated images depicting child sexual abuse. The court ruled that AI-generated material is as illegal and punishable as real images, setting a precedent for handling AI-generated abuse content under Danish law.