State lawmakers are taking steps to criminalize the use of artificial intelligence when it comes to creating child pornography.

House Bill 207 was unanimously passed in a committee earlier this week.

A state trooper in charge of Kentucky's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force testified about how the technology works.

I think a Deepfake image is extremely, extremely dangerous because you can take an application or a program on the Internet.

You can load a picture into it of somebody that you know and create a nude image.

What I would say that person would look like.

No, it's called nude A fine or a nude offer, an image.

No.

Victims that are categorized by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are now being revictimized.

They're taking those photographs of those babies when they were victimized and make a new series, new images, where they are using those child's faces, those child's bodies.

And with the deepfakes, you have the psychological impact of our school kids, you know, the MeToo.

Not only do we need to identify these kids that are these new to fine or these new images are being produced by, but the psychological impact of having their image passed around a school.

The bill, sponsored by Republican Representative Stephanie Dietz, would also make having or selling child sex dolls a crime in Kentucky.

A representative from the attorney general's office told lawmakers the bill would help close the loophole in Kentucky's existing laws.

When law enforcement discovers one of these dolls.

There is no question, no gray area of what this type of doll is made for and what it's used for.

The scariest part is, is that scientific evidence proves that people that utilize or abuse these dolls also go on to be hands on offenders if they haven't done so already.

House Bill 207 cleared the committee and is now waiting to be called up on the House floor for consideration by the full membership.