It's typical for authoritarians, not specific to AI. There are laws hiding all over the place that make drawing pictures illegal. Another Florida Man, Mike Diana, was convicted and sentenced for his (absurdly far from pornography or realism) zine-comic book Boiled Angel, which had a circulation of 300.

For 3 years of probation, he was banned from drawing at all, even for personal use.

https://cbldf.org/2016/09/mike-diana-case-still-resonates-in...