Alaska's Senate panel has removed sweeping restrictions on the use of social media by minors from a bill that would criminalize using artificial intelligence to generate child sexual abuse material. The previous version of the bill had included provisions restricting social media use for minors and penalties for companies that facilitated the creation of AI-generated material. However, the Senate Community & Regional Affairs Committee removed these measures due to legal concerns. The bill would also impose restrictions on AI usage that harmfully impersonates real people. It would make it a felony to possess or distribute AI content depicting an apparent child engaging in obscene sexual content, which is currently illegal under federal law. Two other provisions added to the bill remain in the version moving forward.