A US Air Force employee was arrested for secretly taking photographs of children to create AI child abuse images.
Airman Caleb French, who was stationed with the U.S. Air Force at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, was arrested on December 19.
He is facing one count each of possessing and distributing child pornography and could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
According to a news release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of AlaskaFrench is accused of “secretly” taking photographs of children in the community in order to turn them into AI-generated child sexual abuse material.
In August, an anonymous tipster notified the Air Force Office of Special Investigations about the 27-year-old Frenchman. The tipster claimed that French “wanted to commit sexual assaults against minors.”
Authorities then searched French’s home and recovered “numerous digital devices that allegedly contained over a thousand images and videos depicting child sexual abuse.”
According to a report by sacramento beeInvestigators reportedly later spotted French at a reindeer farm where he was filming a small child, who was there with his family, with a smartphone.
“(French) appeared to be attracted to a family with a small child and was allegedly seen pointing his phone toward the child and may have surreptitiously photographed the child,” prosecutors said. “
According to prosecutors, French left after the children and family left. In December, a further search of French’s “home, person and vehicle” reportedly also recovered “additional devices that are being reviewed.”
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in may, An American man was charged by the FBI To allegedly create 13,000 sexually explicit and abusive AI images of children based on the popular Stable Diffusion Model. Steven Anderegg, 42, was arrested for using generative AI to create thousands of “hyper-realistic images of naked and semi-clothed pre-pubescent children.”
At the time, Anderegg’s arrest was one of the first known instances where the FBI charged someone with using AI to create child sexual abuse material. However, since then several such cases have been reported in the US.
In September, an alleged pedophile was arrested after using a GoPro To film kids at Disney World Thousands of AI to create child abuse images.
Meanwhile, a scandal broke in November, in which a teenage boy was seen Create 50 AI nude photos of your female classmatesA private school was forced to close.
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