Bloomberg reported that Denmark’s Supreme Court upheld an 18-month prison sentence on 15 October for a 31-year-old man convicted of possessing and distributing tens of thousands of AI-generated sexual images depicting children.
The court held that Denmark’s criminal code covers such images even when the people depicted are fictional, and that their fictional nature should not bring a lighter sentence. Lower courts had reached different conclusions about the appropriate punishment in the case.
Under a 2025 revision of Denmark’s criminal code, realistic depictions of child sexual abuse made with AI became punishable, The Copenhagen Post reported. Save the Children received 4,069 public reports of suspected AI-generated sexual abuse material involving children and young people in the first six months of 2026, against 6,558 during 2025 and 2,770 in 2024. Those reports represent suspected material, rather than confirmed cases. Its AnmeldDet service referred 377 reports to police during 2026.
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