Stefan Mileschin

First of its kind

In what's believed to be the first case of its kind, the US Department of Justice arrested a Wisconsin man last week for generating and distributing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Even if no children were used to create the material, the DOJ is keen to establish a judicial precedent that exploitative materials are still illegal.

The DOJ claims Steven Anderegg, 42, used a fork of the open-source AI image generator Stable Diffusion to make the images, which he then used to try to lure an underage boy into sexual situations. The latter will play a central role in the eventual trial for the four counts of "producing, distributing, and possessing obscene visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and transferring obscene material to a minor under the age of 16."

https://fudzilla.com/news/ai/59024-u...ai-child-abuse