Wisconsin Man Arrested for Allegedly Producing, Distributing AI-generated Images of Child Sexual Abuse

Published on May 22, 2024

A Wisconsin man was arrested for allegedly producing, distributing, and possessing AI-generated images of minors in sexually explicit acts and transferring these images to a minor on the social media platform Instagram. Forty-two-year-old Steven Anderegg, of Holmen, allegedly used a text-to-image generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) model called Stable Diffusion to create thousands of realistic images of nude or semi-nude minors engaging in sexual acts, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). “Evidence recovered from Anderegg’s electronic devices revealed that he generated these images using specific, sexually explicit text prompts related to minors, which he then stored on his computer,” the DOJ stated in a press release....

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