The state of Louisiana has enacted laws and/or issued guidance on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Companies subject to Louisiana law should be familiar with all relevant AI-related laws, regulations, and guidance, including those listed below.

Laws and Regulations

This amends state law (RS 14:81.1) to establish a violation of the law where a person uses an image of a child under the age of 17 at the time the image was created with the intent to train an AI model to produce child sexual abuse materials.

This law amends state law (RS 14:81.1) to prohibit the use of AI to create child sexual abuse materials.

This law amends state law (RS 14:73.13) to address unlawful possession of images of another created by AI.

Creates the crime of unlawful deepfakes relating to minors, including use of AI.

Health
Elections

The following law applies in the context of elections in Louisiana.

This law requires disclosure of the use of AI in telephone campaign communications.

This law prohibits a person from making or causing to be made any electioneering communication that portrays a candidate or an elected official subject to recall and that is, through the use of AI, created, altered, or digitally manipulated in a manner that would falsely appear to a reasonable observer to be an authentic record of the actual speech or conduct of the candidate/elected official.