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Nick Robins-Early

US man used AI to generate 13,000 child sexual abuse pictures, FBI alleges

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The deputy attorney general of the justice department said the department will pursue creators of CSAM ‘no matter how that material was created’. Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/AP

The FBI has charged a US man with creating more than 10,000 sexually explicit and abusive images of children, which he allegedly generated using a popular artificial intelligence tool. Authorities also accused the man, 42-year-old Steven Anderegg, of sending pornographic AI-made images to a 15-year-old boy over Instagram.

Anderegg crafted about 13,000 “hyper-realistic images of nude and semi-clothed prepubescent children”, prosecutors stated in an indictment released on Monday, often images depicting children touching their genitals or being sexually abused by adult men. Evidence from the Wisconsin man’s laptop allegedly showed he used the popular Stable Diffusion AI model, which turns text descriptions into images.

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